capital

(noun) assets available for use in the production of further assets. Synonyms: 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. Synonyms: capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule. Example: "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."

(noun) a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product. Examples: "The crime capital of italy." "The drug capital of columbia."

(noun) the federal government of the United States. Synonyms: Capital, Washington.

(noun) a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories. Synonyms: Das Kapital, Capital.

(noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature. Synonyms: chapiter, cap.

(adj) first-rate. Examples: "A capital fellow." "A capital idea."

(adj) of primary importance. Example: "Our capital concern was to avoid defeat."

(adj) uppercase. Synonyms: great, majuscule. Examples: "Capital a." "Great a." "Many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script."