1. Assets available for use in the production of further assets
   "The company needed to increase its working capital to meet growing demand";
   - working capital
    
2. A seat of government
   "Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States"
    
3. Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
   "The company needed more capital to expand its operations"
    
4. A centre that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
   "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Colombia"
    
5. 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"; "She always wrote her name with a capital letter";
   - capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule
    
6. The upper part of a column that supports the entablature
   "The Corinthian capital was adorned with acanthus leaves";
   - chapiter [archaic], cap

1. Of principal importance
   "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
    
2. Uppercase
   "capital A";
   - great, majuscule
    
3. Involving punishment by death
   "a capital crime"
    
4. [Brit] First-rate
   "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"

Sounds like: capitol

Derived forms: capitals

See also: primary, superior, uppercase

Type of: assets, center [US], centre [Brit, Cdn], character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol, seat, top

Part of: column, pillar

Encyclopedia: Capital, Volume IV