capital

adjective

  1. 1

    uppercase

    capital A

    great A

  2. 2

    of primary importance

    our capital concern was to avoid defeat

  3. 3

    first-rate

    a capital fellow

    a capital idea

noun

  1. 1

    the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

  2. 2

    a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

  3. 3

    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

  4. 4

    the federal government of the United States

    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

  5. 5

    a seat of government

  6. 6

    a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product

    the crime capital of Italy

    the drug capital of Columbia

  7. 7

    wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

  8. 8

    assets available for use in the production of further assets

Synonyms

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