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capital
Found in thesaurus: assets, seat, character, grapheme, graphic symbol, center, centre, federal government, top
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capital
adj.
main, chief, principal; punishable by death
n.
city where national or regional government is located; property, assets, wealth; top of a column
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Capital
Capital may refer to:
- Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government
- Capital letter, an upper-case letter in a writing system
- Capitals (typeface), a small-caps serif typeface
- Illuminated capital in a manuscript
- Capital punishment, the death sentence
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Capital
Noun
1. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
(synonym) Das Kapital
(hypernym) book
capital
Noun
1. assets available for use in the production of further assets
(synonym) working capital
(hypernym) assets
(hyponym) stock
(member-meronym) liquid assets, quick assets
(derivation) capitalize, capitalise
2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
(hypernym) assets
(hyponym) endowment, endowment fund
(derivation) capitalize, capitalise
3. a seat of government
(hypernym) seat
(hyponym) Camelot
4. one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
(synonym) capital letter, upper case, upper-case letter, majuscule
(hypernym) character, grapheme, graphic symbol
(hyponym) small capital, small cap
(derivation) capitalize, capitalise
5. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
(synonym) chapiter, cap
(hypernym) top
(part-holonym) column, pillar
Adjective
1. first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
(similar) superior
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2. punishable by death; "a capital offense"
(similar) serious
3. of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
(similar) primary
4. uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
(synonym) great, majuscule
(similar) uppercase
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capital
adj.
capital, momentous, crucial, key, signal
capital
nm.
capital, principal, asset, fund
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capital
adj.
capital, chief; entire
capital
nm.
capital, metropolis; stock; principal
