Definitions
of capital
1. [adj] - (British) first-rate 2. [adj] - punishable by death 3. [adj] - of primary important 4. [adj] - uppercase 5. [n] - assets available for use in the production of further assets 6. [n] - wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value 7. [n] - a seat of government 8. [n] - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in proper names and sometimes for emphasis 9. [n] - the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
Quotes
- Example use of the word capital1. (printers once kept type for capitals and small letters in separate cases 2. capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters) 3. capital A 4. great A 5. many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script 6. our capital concern was to avoid defeat 7. a capital offense 8. a capital fellow 9. a capital idea
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