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capital
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adjective
Uppercase
“Capital A”
adjective
Of principal importance
“Our capital concern was to avoid defeat”
adjective
First-rate
“A capital fellow”
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
“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”
noun
A seat of government
noun
A center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
“The crime capital of Italy”
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
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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
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