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Capital

noun

Assets available for use in the production of further assets. Synonym: working capital.

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. Synonyms: capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase. Antonym: lowercase.

A center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product. "The drug capital of Columbia"

The federal government of the United States. Synonym: Washington.

A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories. Synonym: Das Kapital.

The upper part of a column that supports the entablature. Synonyms: cap, chapiter.

adjective

First-rate. "A capital idea"

Of primary importance.

Uppercase. Synonyms: great, majuscule. "Great A" , "Many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"

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"Capital" Quotes from Famous Books

... anything else. She had gone down to New York to consult some specialist about them, and she was considering adopting them. She told Joyce that she wouldn't hesitate, only she had made such inroads on her capital to keep up her social settlement work, that there was danger of her ending her own days in some kind of an asylum or old ladies' home. She nearly lost her own sight several years ago. That is why she takes such an especial interest in those ...

— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston

... working of it until the meeting of Congress. I regret to say that there has been no modification made in the company's concession, nor, so far as I can learn, have they attempted to secure one. Their concession excludes the capital and the citizens of the United States from competition upon the shores of France. I recommend legislation to protect the rights of citizens of the United States, as well as the dignity and sovereignty of the nation, against such an assumption. I shall also endeavor to secure, by negotiation, ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Ulysses S. Grant • Ulysses S. Grant

... kingdoms, in various directions, to Candahar, to Soughtare[200] in Bengal, to Cabul, Deccan, Surat, and Tatta in Sinde. His empire is divided into five great kingdoms: Punjab, of which Lahore is the capital; Bengal, of which Sonargham[201] is the chief place; Malwa, of which Ugam [Ougein] is the capital; Deccan, with its capital Bramport [Burhanpoor]; and Guzerat, having Amadavar [Ahmedabad] as its capital. ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII. • Robert Kerr

... circles represent capital letters as they occur in the middle of a page in the dictionary—as S, for example, is printed in the middle of the page; and all words beginning with S ...

— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers

... encounter what Lord Rockminster had called the very extremes of fatigue and human misery? He knew that he was about to undergo tortures of anxiety and privation; and, what was worse, he knew he was going to miss. He had saturated his mind with gillies' stories of capital shots who had completely lost their nerve on first catching sight of a stag. The "buck-ague" was already upon him. Not for him was there waiting away in these wilds some Muckle Hart of Ben More to gain a deathless fame from his rifle-bullet. ...

— Prince Fortunatus • William Black

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