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capital

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Synonyms: capitol, capita, capitan, capitall, captal, kapital

Antonyms: capitol, capita, capitan, capitall, captal, kapital

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Noun

  1. Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
    • He does not have enough capital to start a business.
  2. Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
    • He pointed out that it takes both labour and capital to produce goods.
  3. The capitalist class; capital owners considered collectively as a politically influential group — commonly represented by wealthy individuals and private institutional investors.
    • The markets crashing symbolized capital’s discontent with the tax reforms passed.
    • He warned us darkly that capital will never be sated.
  4. A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
    • Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America.
    • The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital.
  5. The most important city in the field specified.
  6. An uppercase letter.
  7. Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
    • Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.
  8. The chief or most important thing.

Adjective

  1. Of prime importance.
  2. Chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation).
    • London and Paris are capital cities.
  3. Excellent.
    • a capital fellow
    • That is a capital idea!
  4. Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
    • capital punishment; capital murder
  5. Uppercase.
    • One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
    • You're a genius with a capital G!
    • He's dead with a capital D!
  6. Used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness.
    • You're a genius with a capital G!
    • He's dead with a capital D!
  7. Of or relating to the head.

Interjection

  1. Used as an expression of approval, satisfaction, or delight.
    • That's an amazing idea! Capital!

Noun

  1. The uppermost part of a column.

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