English dictionary
capital
adjectiveParts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- uppercase
adjective
- of principal importance
adjective
- first-rate
noun
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
noun
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
noun
- a seat of government
noun
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
noun
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
noun
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
Example sentences
capital A
great A
many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
our capital concern was to avoid defeat
a capital fellow
a capital idea
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
the crime capital of Italy
the drug capital of Colombia