capital
ka puh tuhl
- n assets available for use in the production of further assets
- n wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- n a seat of government
- n one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases - n a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
the crime capital of Italy
the drug capital of Columbia - n the federal government of the United States
- n a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
- n the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- s first-rate
a capital fellow
a capital idea - s of primary importance
our capital concern was to avoid defeat - s uppercase
capital A
- July has left the capital choking, as hundreds of firefighters and conscript soldiers battled to stop Parnitha's inferno from sweeping down the mountain's southern slopes and .
- Opponents of capital punishment fear that Spenkelink's death, ending an unofficial moratorium, may lead to a wave of executions.
- Once a remote outpost at the edge of the Soviet Union, the Estonian capital is now at the heart of Europe's weekend club scene.