Capital meaning

What does “capital” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“capital” is a noun and adjective with 11 meanings. Its most common meaning is: assets available for use in the production of further assets.

capital

noun

  1. assets available for use in the production of further assets

  2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

  3. a seat of government

  4. 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”

  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”

  6. the federal government of the United States

    SynonymsWashington
  7. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

    SynonymsDas Kapital
  8. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

    Synonymschapitercap

adjective

  1. first-rate

    “a capital fellow”

    “a capital idea”

  2. of primary importance

    “our capital concern was to avoid defeat”

  3. uppercase

    “capital A”

    “great A”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University