What is the meaning of Capital?

noun

  • Assets available for use in the production of further assets.
  • 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.
    • usage: "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"
  • A center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product.
    • usage: "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia"
  • The federal government of the United States.
  • A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories.
  • The upper part of a column that supports the entablature.

adjective

  • First-rate.
    • usage: "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
  • Of primary importance.
    • usage: "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
  • Uppercase.
    • usage: "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
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