capital
1. assets available for use in the production of further assets (Freq. 15)
• Syn:
working capital
• Derivationally related forms:
capitalist, capitalize, capitalise
• Hypernyms:
assets
• Hyponyms:
stock, venture capital, risk capital, operating capital, seed money
• Member Meronyms:
liquid assets, current assets, quick assets
2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value (Freq. 3)
• Derivationally related forms:
capitalist, capitalise
• Hypernyms:
assets
• Hyponyms:
endowment, endowment fund, means, substance, principal,
corpus, principal sum
3. a seat of government (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms:
seat
• Hyponyms:
national capital, provincial capital, state capital
• Instance Hyponyms:
Camelot, George Town, Bridgetown, capital of Barbados, Belfast,
capital of Northern Ireland, Edinburgh, Cardiff
4. one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Syn:
capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule
• Ant:
lowercase (for: uppercase)
• Derivationally related forms:
majuscular (for: majuscule), capitalize, capitalise
• Hypernyms:
character, grapheme, graphic symbol
• Hyponyms:
small capital, small cap
5. a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the crime capital of Italy
- the drug capital of Columbia
• Hypernyms:
center, centre
6. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
• Syn:
chapiter, cap
• Hypernyms:
top
• Part Holonyms:
column, pillar
1. first-rate
- a capital fellow
- a capital idea
• Similar to:
superior
• Regions:
United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain
2. of primary importance
- our capital concern was to avoid defeat
• Similar to:
primary
3. uppercase
- capital A
- great A
- many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
• Syn:
great, majuscule
• Similar to:
uppercase
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