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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | capital | First-rate |
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| 2 | capital | Punishable by death | |
| 3 | capital | Of primary important | |
| 4 | capital, great, majuscule | Uppercase | |
| NOUN | 1 | capital, working capital | Assets available for use in the production of further assets |
| 2 | capital | Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | |
| 3 | capital | A seat of government | |
| 4 | capital, capital letter, upper case, 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 | |
| 5 | Capital, Das Kapital | A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories | |
| 6 | capital, chapiter, cap | The upper part of a column that supports the entablature |
| Sounds | kae'pahtahl; kae'pihtahl |
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| Rhymes | abdominal, Abel, able, and 2059 more rhymes in ahl at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | First-rate. |
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| Examples | "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea" |
| Region | United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Similar to | superior |
| Meaning | Punishable by death. |
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| Examples | "a capital offense" |
| Similar to | serious |
| Meaning | Of primary important. |
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| Examples | "our capital concern was to avoid defeat" |
| Similar to | primary |
| Meaning | Uppercase. |
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| Examples | "capital A" |
| Synonyms | great, majuscule |
| Similar to | uppercase |
| Meaning | Assets available for use in the production of further assets. |
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| Synonyms | working capital |
| Members | liquid assets, quick assets |
| Narrower | stock; venture capital, risk capital; operating capital; seed money |
| Broader | assets |
| Verbs | capitalize, capitalise; capitalize, capitalise; capitalise; capitalise |
| Meaning | Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value. |
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| Narrower | endowment, endowment fund; means, substance; principal, corpus, principal sum |
| Broader | assets |
| Verbs | capitalise |
| Meaning | A seat of government. |
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| Narrower | Camelot; national capital; provincial capital; state capital; George Town; Bridgetown, capital of Barbados; Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, Pressburg, Pozsony; Sucre; Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland; Edinburgh; Cardiff; Minsk, capital of Belarus; Tallinn, Tallin, capital of Estonia; Riga, capital of Latvia; Vilnius, Vilna, Vilno, Wilno, capital of Lithuania; Kishinev, Chisinau, capital of Moldova; Kyyiv, Kiev, capital of the Ukraine; Yerevan, Jerevan, Erivan, capital of Armenia; Baku, capital of Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, Tiflis, capital of Georgia; Astana, Akmola, capital of Kazakhstan; Bishkek, Biskek, Frunze, capital of Kyrgyzstan; Dushanbe, Dusanbe, Dyushambe, Stalinabad, capital of Tajikistan; Ashkhabad, capital of Turkmenistan; Tashkent, Taskent, capital of Uzbek |
| Broader | seat |
| Meaning | One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis. |
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| Examples | "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" |
| Synonyms | capital letter, upper case, upper-case letter, majuscule |
| Narrower | small capital, small cap |
| Broader | character, grapheme, graphic symbol |
| Contrary | small letter, lower case, lower-case letter, minuscule |
| Verbs | capitalize, capitalise |
| Meaning | A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories. |
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| Synonyms | Das Kapital |
| Broader | book |
| Meaning | The upper part of a column that supports the entablature. |
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| Synonyms | chapiter, cap |
| Part of | column, pillar |
| Broader | top |