capital

Meanings

Noun

• assets available for use in the production of further assets
• wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
• a seat of government
• 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"
• a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
  • "the crime capital of Italy"
  • "the drug capital of Columbia"
• the federal government of the United States
• a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
• the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

Adjective Satellite

• first-rate
  • "a capital fellow"
  • "a capital idea"
• of primary importance
  • "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
• uppercase
  • "capital A"

Synonyms

cap, capital letter, chapiter, Das Kapital, great, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, Washington, working capital

Antonyms

lowercase