'Capital' definitions:
Definition of 'capital'
From: WordNet
adjective
First-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
adjective
Of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
adjective
Uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" [syn: capital, great, majuscule]
noun
Assets available for use in the production of further assets [syn: capital, working capital]
noun
Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
noun
A seat of government
noun
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" [syn: capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule] [ant: lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter]
noun
A center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia"
noun
The federal government of the United States [syn: Capital, Washington]
noun
A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories [syn: Das Kapital, Capital]
noun
Definition of 'Capital'
From: GCIDE
- Capital \Cap"i*tal\, a. [F. capital, L. capitalis capital (in senses 1 & 2), fr. caput head. See Chief, and cf. Capital, n.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to the head. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment. [1913 Webster]
- Many crimes that are capital among us. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- To put to death a capital offender. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. First in importance; chief; principal. [1913 Webster]
- A capital article in religion --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- Whatever is capital and essential in Christianity. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- Capital letter [F, lettre capitale] (Print.), a leading or heading letter, used at the beginning of a sentence and as the first letter of certain words, distinguished, for the most part, both by different form and larger size, from the small (lower-case) letters, which form the greater part of common print or writing.
- Small capital letters have the form of capital letters and height of the body of the lower-case letters.
- Capital stock, money, property, or stock invested in any business, or the enterprise of any corporation or institution. --Abbott.
- Syn: Chief; leading; controlling; prominent. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'capital'
From: GCIDE
- capital \cap"i*tal\ (k[a^]p"[i^]*tal), n. [Cf. L. capitellum and capitulum, a small head, the head, top, or capital of a column, dim. of caput head; F. chapiteau, OF. capitel. See chief, and cf. cattle, chattel, chapiter, chapter.]
- 1. (Arch.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [Cf. F. capilate, fem., sc. ville.] (Geog.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital" --Macauly. [1913 Webster]
- 3. [Cf. F. capital.] Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See {Capital stock}, under Capital, a. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Polit. Econ.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. --M'Culloch. [1913 Webster]
- Note: When wealth is used to assist production it is called capital. The capital of a civilized community includes fixed capital (i.e. buildings, machines, and roads used in the course of production and exchange) and circulating capital (i.e., food, fuel, money, etc., spent in the course of production and exchange). --T. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. [1913 Webster]
- He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture. --London Times. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Fort.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Print.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a. [1913 Webster]
- Active capital. See under Active,
- Small capital (Print.), a small capital letter; informally referred to (in the plural) as small caps; as, the technical terms are listed in small caps. See under Capital, a.
- To live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'capital'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- ability,
- acmatic,
- advantageous,
- all-absorbing,
- allographic,
- alphabetic,
- apical,
- arch,
- art center,
- ascender,
- assets,
- auspicious,
- available means,
- back,
- balance,
- banner,
- basic,
- bastard type,
- beard,
- belly,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- bevel,
- black letter,
- body,
- bon,
- bonny,
- bracket capital,
- braw,
- bueno,
- cap,
- capacity,
- capital city,
- capital gains distribution,
- capital goods,
- capital structure,
- capitalization,
- cardinal,
- case,
- cash,
- central,
- champion,
- chief,
- choice,
- circulating capital,
- cock,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- consummate,
- controlling,
- cornice,
- corpus,
- counter,
- county seat,
- county site,
- county town,
- crown,
- crowning,
- dandy,
- descender,
- devices,
- disposable resources,
- dominant,
- elegant,
- em,
- en,
- equity capital,
- essential,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expedient,
- extraordinary,
- face,
- fair,
- famous,
- fat-faced type,
- favorable,
- feet,
- finances,
- financial,
- fine,
- first,
- first-class,
- first-rate,
- first-string,
- fiscal,
- fixed capital,
- flagrant,
- floating capital,
- focal,
- font,
- foremost,
- fund,
- fundamental,
- funds,
- garment center,
- glaring,
- good,
- goodly,
- Grade A,
- grand,
- graphemic,
- great,
- grist,
- groove,
- gross,
- head,
- headmost,
- healthy,
- hegemonic,
- helpful,
- highest,
- holdings,
- ideographic,
- important,
- initial,
- italic,
- kind,
- laudable,
- leading,
- letter,
- lettered,
- lexigraphic,
- ligature,
- liquid assets,
- literal,
- logogrammatic,
- logographic,
- logotype,
- lower case,
- lower-case,
- magisterial,
- main,
- major,
- majuscule,
- manufacturing center,
- master,
- matchless,
- maximal,
- maximum,
- mean,
- means,
- medical center,
- meridian,
- meridional,
- method,
- metropolis,
- minuscular,
- minuscule,
- monetary,
- money,
- moneyed capital,
- nice,
- nick,
- noble,
- number one,
- numismatic,
- nummary,
- outstanding,
- overmost,
- overriding,
- overruling,
- paramount,
- pecuniary,
- peerless,
- pi,
- pica,
- pictographic,
- pleasant,
- point,
- power,
- predominant,
- preeminent,
- premier,
- preponderant,
- prevailing,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- principal,
- print,
- profitable,
- property,
- railroad center,
- rank,
- ranking,
- recourses,
- regal,
- resorts,
- resource,
- resources,
- ripping,
- roman,
- royal,
- ruling,
- sans serif,
- savings,
- script,
- seat,
- seat of government,
- select,
- shank,
- shipping center,
- shire town,
- shopping center,
- shoulder,
- skillful,
- small cap,
- small capital,
- smashing,
- sound,
- sovereign,
- splendid,
- stamp,
- star,
- stellar,
- stem,
- sterling,
- stock,
- summital,
- sumptuary,
- super,
- superb,
- supereminent,
- superior,
- supply,
- supreme,
- tip-top,
- top,
- top-hole,
- top-notch,
- topflight,
- topmost,
- topping,
- tourist center,
- trade center,
- transliterated,
- type,
- type body,
- type class,
- type lice,
- typecase,
- typeface,
- typefounders,
- typefoundry,
- ultimate,
- uncial,
- underlying,
- upmost,
- upper case,
- upper-case,
- uppermost,
- urban center,
- useful,
- valid,
- venture capital,
- vertical,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- vital,
- ways,
- ways and means,
- wealth,
- wherewith,
- wherewithal,
- working capital,
- zenithal
Words containing 'Capital'
- Capitalization,
- Capitalize,
- Capitalize on,
- Capitalized,
- Capitalizing,
- Capitally,
- Capitalness,
- Capitate,
- Capite,
- capitalism,
- capitation,
- Active capital,
- Capital crime,
- Capital letter,
- Capital manse,
- Capital stock,
- Cushion capital,
- Fixed capital,
- Neck of a capital,
- Small capital,
- Tenant in capite,
- albanian capital,
- algerian capital,
- american capital,
- angolan capital,
- australian capital,
- austrian capital,
- belgian capital,
- block capital,
- brazilian capital,
- british capital,
- bulgarian capital,
- cambodian capital,
- canadian capital,
- capital account,
- capital cost,
- capital expenditure,
- capital gain,
- capital levy,
- capital loss,
- capital of afghanistan,
- capital of alabama,
- capital of alaska,
- capital of argentina,
- capital of arizona,
- capital of arkansas,
- capital of armenia,
- capital of australia,
- capital of austria,
- capital of azerbaijan,
- capital of bahrain,
- capital of bangladesh,
- capital of barbados,
- capital of belarus,
- capital of belgium,
- capital of benin,
- capital of bolivia,
- capital of botswana,
- capital of brazil,
- capital of burundi,
- capital of california,
- capital of cameroon,
- capital of canada,
- capital of chad,
- capital of chile,
- capital of colombia,
- capital of colorado,
- capital of connecticut,
- capital of cuba,
- capital of cyprus,
- capital of delaware,
- capital of djibouti,
- capital of ecuador,
- capital of egypt,
- capital of estonia,
- capital of ethiopia,
- capital of finland,
- capital of florida,
- capital of france,
- capital of gabon,
- capital of gambia,
- capital of georgia,
- capital of ghana,
- capital of greece,
- capital of grenada,
- capital of guatemala,
- capital of guinea,
- capital of hawaii,
- capital of hungary,
- capital of iceland,
- capital of idaho,
- capital of illinois,
- capital of india,
- capital of indiana,
- capital of indonesia,
- capital of iowa,
- capital of iran,
- capital of iraq,
- capital of ireland,
- capital of israel,
- capital of italy,
- capital of jamaica,
- capital of japan,
- capital of jordan,
- capital of kansas,
- capital of kazakhstan,
- capital of kentucky,
- capital of kenya,
- capital of kuwait,
- capital of kyrgyzstan,
- capital of laos,
- capital of latvia,
- capital of lebanon,
- capital of lesotho,
- capital of liberia,
- capital of libya,
- capital of liechtenstein,
- capital of lithuania,
- capital of louisiana,
- capital of luxembourg,
- capital of madagascar,
- capital of maine,
- capital of malawi,
- capital of malaysia,
- capital of malta,
- capital of maryland,
- capital of massachusetts,
- capital of mexico,
- capital of michigan,
- capital of minnesota,
- capital of mississippi,
- capital of missouri,
- capital of moldova,
- capital of mongolia,
- capital of montana,
- capital of morocco,
- capital of mozambique,
- capital of nebraska,
- capital of nepal,
- capital of nevada,
- capital of nicaragua,
- capital of niger,
- capital of nigeria,
- capital of norway,
- capital of ohio,
- capital of oklahoma,
- capital of oman,
- capital of oregon,
- capital of pakistan,
- capital of panama,
- capital of paraguay,
- capital of pennsylvania,
- capital of peru,
- capital of poland,
- capital of portugal,
- capital of qatar,
- capital of romania,
- capital of rwanda,
- capital of senegal,
- capital of seychelles,
- capital of singapore,
- capital of slovakia,
- capital of somalia,
- capital of spain,
- capital of sudan,
- capital of suriname,
- capital of swaziland,
- capital of sweden,
- capital of switzerland,
- capital of syria,
- capital of taiwan,
- capital of tajikistan,
- capital of tanzania,
- capital of tennessee,
- capital of texas,
- capital of thailand,
- capital of the bahamas,
- capital of the netherlands,
- capital of the philippines,
- capital of the ukraine,
- capital of tibet,
- capital of togo,
- capital of tunisia,
- capital of turkey,
- capital of turkmenistan,
- capital of uganda,
- capital of uruguay,
- capital of utah,
- capital of uzbek,
- capital of vanuatu,
- capital of venezuela,
- capital of vermont,
- capital of vietnam,
- capital of virginia,
- capital of washington,
- capital of wisconsin,
- capital of wyoming,
- capital of zambia,
- capital of zimbabwe,
- capital offense,
- capital punishment,
- capital ship,
- capitate bone,
- circulating capital,
- cost of capital,
- cuban capital,
- czech capital,
- danish capital,
- dutch capital,
- egyptian capital,
- finnish capital,
- french capital,
- german capital,
- greek capital,
- haitian capital,
- hawaiian capital,
- honduran capital,
- hungarian capital,
- indian capital,
- iranian capital,
- irish capital,
- italian capital,
- jamaican capital,
- japanese capital,
- laotian capital,
- liberian capital,
- market capitalization,
- mexican capital,
- national capital,
- neck of the capital,
- nicaraguan capital,
- nigerian capital,
- operating capital,
- panamanian capital,
- provincial capital,
- risk capital,
- russian capital,
- salvadoran capital,
- spanish capital,
- state capital,
- state capitalism,
- turkish capital,
- venture capital,
- venture capitalism,
- working capital,
- Small capital letters,
- To live on one's capital,
- capital gains tax,
- capital of antigua and barbuda,
- capital of cape verde,
- capital of central africa,
- capital of costa rica,
- capital of new hampshire,
- capital of new jersey,
- capital of new mexico,
- capital of new york,
- capital of new zealand,
- capital of north carolina,
- capital of north dakota,
- capital of north korea,
- capital of northern ireland,
- capital of red china,
- capital of rhode island,
- capital of san marino,
- capital of saudi arabia,
- capital of sierra leone,
- capital of south africa,
- capital of south carolina,
- capital of south dakota,
- capital of south korea,
- capital of sri lanka,
- capital of the dominican republic,
- capital of the russian federation,
- capital of the united kingdom,
- capital of the united states,
- capital of trinidad and tobago,
- capital of west virginia,
- capital of western samoa,
- large-capitalization,
- return on invested capital,
- small-capitalization,
- capital of guinea-bissau,
- capital of papua new guinea,
- united arab emirates's capital