| capital | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. capital, working capital | assets available for use in the production of further assets. |
| ~ assets | anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company. |
| ~ current assets, liquid assets, quick assets | assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash). |
| ~ stock | the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity).; "he owns a controlling share of the company's stock" |
| ~ risk capital, venture capital | wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises. |
| ~ operating capital | capital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvements. |
| ~ seed money | capital needed to set up a new business or enterprise. |
| n. (possession) | 2. capital | wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value. |
| ~ endowment fund, endowment | the capital that provides income for an institution. |
| ~ assets | anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company. |
| ~ means, substance | considerable capital (wealth or income).; "he is a man of means" |
| ~ corpus, principal sum, principal | capital as contrasted with the income derived from it. |
| n. (location) | 3. capital | a seat of government. |
| ~ camelot | (Arthurian legend) the capital of King Arthur's kingdom; according to the legend, truth and goodness and beauty reigned there. |
| ~ seat | a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised). |
| ~ national capital | the capital city of a nation. |
| ~ provincial capital | the capital city of a province. |
| ~ state capital | the capital city of a political subdivision of a country. |
| ~ george town | the capital of the Cayman Islands. |
| ~ bridgetown, capital of barbados | capital of Barbados; a port city on the southwestern coast of Barbados. |
| ~ belfast, capital of northern ireland | capital and largest city of Northern Ireland; the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland. |
| ~ edinburgh | the capital of Scotland; located in the Lothian Region on the south side of the Firth of Forth. |
| ~ cardiff | the capital and largest city of Wales. |
| n. (communication) | 4. capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase | 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" |
| ~ grapheme, graphic symbol, character | a written symbol that is used to represent speech.; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" |
| ~ small capital, small cap | a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters. |
| n. (location) | 5. 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" |
| ~ centre, center | a place where some particular activity is concentrated.; "they received messages from several centers" |
| n. (group) | 6. capital, washington | the federal government of the United States. |
| ~ federal government | a government with strong central powers. |
| n. (communication) | 7. capital, das kapital | a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories. |
| ~ book | a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together).; "I am reading a good book on economics" |
| n. (artifact) | 8. cap, capital, chapiter | the upper part of a column that supports the entablature. |
| ~ pillar, column | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure. |
| ~ top | the upper part of anything.; "the mower cuts off the tops of the grass"; "the title should be written at the top of the first page" |
| adj. | 9. capital | first-rate.; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea" |
| ~ britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. |
| ~ superior | of high or superior quality or performance.; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students" |
| adj. | 10. capital | of primary importance.; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat" |
| ~ primary | of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary.; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest" |
| adj. | 11. capital, great, majuscule | uppercase.; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" |
| ~ uppercase | relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case.; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc" |
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