Capital Meaning

There are 11 meaning(s) for word Capital

Meaning 1 : the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

    Synonyms : cap,  chapiter
Meaning 2 : the federal government of the United States

    Synonyms : washington
Meaning 3 : one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

    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

    Synonyms : capital letter,  majuscule,  upper-case letter,  uppercase
Meaning 4 : assets available for use in the production of further assets

    Synonyms : working capital
Meaning 5 : uppercase

    Example : capital A

    Synonyms : great,  majuscule
Meaning 6 : a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

    Synonyms : das kapital
Meaning 7 : a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product

    Example : the crime capital of Italy,the drug capital of Columbia

Meaning 8 : a seat of government

Meaning 9 : first-rate

    Example : a capital fellow,a capital idea

Meaning 10 : of primary importance

    Example : our capital concern was to avoid defeat

Meaning 11 : wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value