modals English
Noun
(head)
Anagrams
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capital Alternative forms
* capitall (obsolete)
Noun
(uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
(uncountable, business, finance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
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(countable) 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.
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(countable) The most important city in the field specified.
* 2010 September, Charlie Brennan, "Active Athletes", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 83:
- Hollywood is the film capital', New York the theater '''capital''', Las Vegas the gambling ' capital .
(countable) An uppercase letter.
(countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
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Usage notes
The homophone capitol refers only to a building, usually one that houses the legislative branch of a government, and often one located in a capital city.
Synonyms
* (An uppercase letter) caps (in the plural), majuscule
Antonyms
* (An uppercase letter) minuscule
Adjective
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of prime importance
* Atterbury
- a capital article in religion
* I. Taylor
- whatever is capital and essential in Christianity
Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
- London and Paris are capital cities.
(British, dated) excellent
- That is a capital idea!
Involving punishment by death.
* Jonathan Swift
- many crimes that are capital among us
* Milton
- to put to death a capital offender
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 517:
- Some 1,600 priests were deported, for example, while the total number of capital victims of the military commissions down to 1799 was only around 150.
uppercase
- One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
Of or relating to the head.
* Milton
- Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain.
Antonyms
* (uppercase) lower-case
Derived terms
* block capitals
* capital asset
* capital goods
* capitalism
* capital punishment
* capital ship
* economic capital
* financial capital
* human capital
* personal capital
* real capital
* social capital
Related terms
* captain
* capitulate
* capitulation
* chapiter
* chapter
References
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