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Capital

noun

Assets available for use in the production of further assets. Synonym: working capital.

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

A seat of government.

One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis. Synonyms: capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase. Antonym: lowercase.

A center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product. "The drug capital of Columbia"

The federal government of the United States. Synonym: Washington.

A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories. Synonym: Das Kapital.

The upper part of a column that supports the entablature. Synonyms: cap, chapiter.

adjective

First-rate. "A capital idea"

Of primary importance.

Uppercase. Synonyms: great, majuscule. "Great A" , "Many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"

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"Capital" Quotes from Famous Books

... But as the treaty was going to be signed, the czar sent an army of 20,000 men to his relief, who defeated general Mayerfield, whom the king had left to guard that kingdom; and the dethroned monarch once more entered Warsaw, the capital of Poland, ...

— The Fortunate Foundlings • Eliza Fowler Haywood

... us have as few theories as possible; what is wanted is not the light of speculation. If nothing worked well of which the theory was not perfectly understood, we should be in sad confusion. The relations of labour and capital, we are told, are not understood, yet trade and commerce, on the whole, work satisfactorily." I quote from The Times of only the other day. But thoughts like these, as I have often pointed out, are thoroughly ...

— Culture and Anarchy • Matthew Arnold

... a capital helper, because her heart was in the matter, and she really wanted a pleasant, cheerful home; but Maddie was content to look on, and scarcely ...

— Little Alice's Palace - or, The Sunny Heart • Anonymous

... talk, wondering deeply. He had talked of a world she knew only in novels, in history, and in books of travel. His view of it was not an educational one: he was no philosopher, nor trained observer. He remembered London—to her the capital of the world— chiefly by its restaurants, Cairo on account of its execrable golf- links. He lived only to enjoy himself. His view was that of a boy, hearty and healthy and seeking only excitement and mischief. She had heard his tales of his brief career at Harvard, of the reunions at Henry's American ...

— Ranson's Folly • Richard Harding Davis

... Cranehart said. "A conspiracy of the type I have described constitutes a capital offense under present conditions. Are you certain that you would prefer us to ...

— Watch the Sky • James H. Schmitz

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