capital

Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.uncountable

• Near-synonym: assets
• He does not have enough capital to start a business.

Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).uncountable

• Near-synonym: assets
• He pointed out that it takes both labour and capital to produce goods.

The capitalist class; capital owners considered collectively as a politically influential group — commonly represented by wealthy individuals and private institutional investors.uncountable

• The markets crashing symbolized capital’s discontent with the tax reforms passed.
• He warned us darkly that capital will never be sated.

A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.countable

• Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America.
• The Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital.

The most important city in the field specified.countable

• Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.

An uppercase letter.countable

Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.uncountable

• Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.

The chief or most important thing.broadlycountable

Of prime importance.not-comparable

• a capital article in religion
• whatever is capital and essential in Christianity

Chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation).not-comparable

• London and Paris are capital cities.

Excellent.UKcomparabledated

• a capital fellow
• That is a capital idea!

Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.not-comparable

• capital punishment; capital murder

Uppercase.not-comparable

• One begins a sentence with a capital letter.

Uppercase.; Used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness.not-comparable

• You're a genius with a capital G!
• He's dead with a capital D!

Of or relating to the head.not-comparable

• Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain.

used as an expression of approval, satisfaction, or delight.datedslang

• That's an amazing idea! Capital!

The uppermost part of a column.countable

• But a great wonder of this chamber, and a marvel to behold, was how the capital of every one of the four-and-twenty pillars was hewn from a single precious stone, carved by the hand of some sculptor of long ago into the living form of a mon