Capital — synonyms, definition

1. capital (a) Brit

admirable best cardinal chief choice commendable consequential crack crucial deadly dominant egregious essential excellent exceptional excessive extreme fatal fine first • • •

2. capital (Noun) Brit

Washington assets bomb bundle cap capital letter cash chapiter city fortune funds gold investment large liquid assets majuscule means metropolis mint money • • •

capital (Noun) — The federal government of the United States.

capital (Noun) — Assets available for use in the production of further assets.

capital (Noun) — Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value.

capital (Noun) — A seat of government.

capital (Noun) — One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis. ex. "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"

capital (Noun) — A centre that is associated more than any other with some activity or product. ex. "the crime capital of Italy" ex. "the drug capital of Colombia"

capital (Noun) — The upper part of a column that supports the entablature.

assets center centre character federal government grapheme graphic symbol seat top Belfast Bridgetown Camelot Cardiff Edinburgh George Town capital of Barbados capital of Northern Ireland corpus endowment endowment fund means national capital operating capital principal principal sum provincial capital risk capital seed money small cap • • • current assets liquid assets quick assets column pillar

3. capital (Adjective) Brit

great

capital (Adjective) — First-rate.

capital (Adjective) — Of primary importance. ex. "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"

capital (Adjective) — Uppercase. ex. "capital A"