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    cap·i·tal
    [ˈkapədl]
    noun
    capital (noun) · capitals (plural noun) · capital city (noun) · capital cities (plural noun) · capital town (noun) · capital towns (plural noun) · capital letter (noun) · capital letters (plural noun)
    1. the most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government and administrative center:
      "Warsaw is the capital of Poland"
      Similar:
      first city
      most important city
      seat of government
      center of administration
      • a place associated more than any other with a specified activity or product:
        "Milan is the fashion capital of the world"
    2. wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing:
      "rates of return on invested capital were high" · "the senior partner would provide the initial capital"
      • the excess of a company's assets over its liabilities.
      • people who possess wealth and use it to control a society's economic activity, considered collectively:
        "a conflict of interest between capital and labor"
      • a valuable resource of a particular kind:
        "there is insufficient investment in human capital"
    3. a letter of the size and form used to begin sentences and names:
      "he wrote the name in capitals"
    adjective
    capital (adjective)
    1. (of an offense or charge) liable to the death penalty:
      "murder was a capital crime"
    2. (of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names.
    3. informal
      dated
      excellent:
      "he's a really capital fellow"
    exclamation
    BRITISH ENGLISH
    informal
    dated
    1. used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight:
      "That's splendid! Capital!"
    Origin
    Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘relating to the head or top’, later ‘standing at the head or beginning’): via Old French from Latin capitalis, from caput ‘head’.
    cap·i·tal
    [ˈkapədl]
    noun
    architecture
    capital (noun) · capitals (plural noun)
    1. the distinct, typically broader section at the head of a pillar or column:
      "the pillars have molded capitals"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old French capitel, from late Latin capitellum ‘little head’, diminutive of Latin caput.
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