cap·i·tal /ˈkæpɪtəl/
1. assets available for use in the production of further assets
synset: capital, working_capital
2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
synset: capital
3. a seat of government
synset: capital
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"
synset: capital, capital_letter, uppercase, upper-case_letter, majuscule
antonym: small_letter, lowercase, lower-case_letter, minuscule
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"
synset: capital
6. the federal government of the United States
synset: Capital, Washington
7. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
synset: Das_Kapital, Capital
8. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
synset: capital, chapiter, cap
1. first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
synset: capital
2. of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
synset: capital
3. uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
synset: capital, great, majuscule
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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