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1. cap·i·tal

   /ˈkapədl/

   noun

   • 1. the most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government and administrative center: "Warsaw is the capital of Poland" Similar first city, most important city, seat of government, center of administration, metropolis
   • ▪ a place associated more than any other with a specified activity or product: "Milan is the fashion capital of the world"
   • 2. wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing: "rates of return on invested capital were high" Similar money, finance(s), funds, the wherewithal, the means, ... moreassets, wealth, resources, reserves, deep pockets, stock, principal, working capital, investment capital, informal:dough, bread, loot, shekels, moolah, the necessary, wad, boodle, dibs, gelt, ducats, rhino, gravy, scratch, stuff, oof, dosh, brass, lolly, spondulicks, wonga, ackers, the ready, readies, dinero, greenbacks, simoleons, bucks, jack, mazuma, Oscar, informal, dated:splosh, green, tin, dated:l.s.d., informal, dated:kale, rocks, shinplasters, archaic:pelf
   • ▪ the excess of a company's assets over its liabilities.
   • ▪ people who possess wealth and use it to control a society's economic activity, considered collectively: "a conflict of interest between capital and labor"
   • ▪ a valuable resource of a particular kind: "there is insufficient investment in human capital"
   • 3. a letter of the size and form used to begin sentences and names: "he wrote the name in capitals" Similar capital letter, upper-case letter, block capital, informal:cap, technical:uncial, ... moreuncial letter, majuscule letter

   adjective

   • 1. (of an offense or charge) liable to the death penalty: "murder was a capital crime"
   • 2. (of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names.
   • 3. excellent: informal, dated "he's a really capital fellow"

   exclamation

   • 1. used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight: informal, dated British "That's splendid! Capital!"

   Word Origin Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘relating to the head or top’, later ‘standing at the head or beginning’): via Old French from Latin capitalis, from caput ‘head’.

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