capital

Adjective

• uppercase
  • capital A
    
  • great A
    
  • many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
    

• of primary importance
  • our capital concern was to avoid defeat
    

• first-rate
  • a capital fellow
    
  • a capital idea
    

Noun

• the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

• a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

• the federal government of the United States

• a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
  • the crime capital of Italy
    
  • the drug capital of Columbia
    

• one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
  • printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases
    

• a seat of government

• wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

• assets available for use in the production of further assets

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  great , majuscule , chapiter , cap , Das Kapital , Capital , Washington , capital letter , uppercase , upper-case letter , working capital
• Antonyms: 
  small letter , lowercase , lower-case letter , minuscule