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capital   (TTS Sound)

The noun capital has 8 senses

• capital, working capital -- (assets available for use in the production of further assets)


• capital -- (wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value)


• capital -- (a seat of government)


• capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule -- (one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "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 -- (a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia")


• Capital, Washington -- (the federal government of the United States)


• Das Kapital, Capital -- (a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories)


• capital, chapiter, cap -- (the upper part of a column that supports the entablature)

The adj capital has 3 senses

• capital -- (first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea")


• capital -- (of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat")


• capital, great, majuscule -- (uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script")