capital meaning and definition

CAPITAL noun

Definition of capital (noun)

1. assets available for use in the production of further assets
   • synonyms: working capital
2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
3. a seat of government
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"
   • synonyms: capital letter, majuscule, uppercase, upper-case letter
   • antonym: lowercase
5. a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
   • "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia"
6. the federal government of the United States
   • synonyms: Washington
7. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
   • synonyms: Das Kapital
8. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
   • synonyms: cap, chapiter

CAPITAL adjective

Definition of capital (adjective)

1. first-rate
   • "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
2. of primary importance
   • "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
3. uppercase
   • "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
   • synonyms: great, majuscule