capital
adj.
main, chief, principal; punishable by death
n.
city where national or regional government is located; property, assets, wealth; top of a column
Capital
In
politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has
a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital") is the center of
government. It is almost always the city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the
seat of government and fixed by
law. The word capital is derived from the
Latin caput meaning "head," and the related term Capitol (disambiguation){{!}}capitol refers to the building where government business is chiefly conducted. Seats of government in major sub-state jurisdictions are often called "capitals", but this is typically the case only in countries with some degree of
federalism, where major substate jurisdictions have an element of
sovereignty. In
unitary states, "administrative center" or other similar terms are typically used. For example, the seat of government in a
state of the United States of America is usually called its "capital", but the main city in a region of England is usually not. At lower administrative subdivisions, terms such as
county town,
county seat, or
borough seat are usually used.
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Capital (disambiguation)
Capital
Noun
1. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
(synonym) Das Kapital
(hypernym) book
capital
Noun
1. assets available for use in the production of further assets
(synonym) working capital
(hypernym) assets
(hyponym) stock
(member-meronym) liquid assets, quick assets
(derivation) capitalize, capitalise
2. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
(hypernym) assets
(hyponym) endowment, endowment fund
(derivation) capitalize, capitalise
3. a seat of government
(hypernym) seat
(hyponym) Camelot
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"
(synonym) capital letter, upper case, upper-case letter, majuscule
(hypernym) character, grapheme, graphic symbol
(hyponym) small capital, small cap
(derivation) capitalize, capitalise
5. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
(synonym) chapiter, cap
(hypernym) top
(part-holonym) column, pillar
Adjective
1. first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
(similar) superior
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2. punishable by death; "a capital offense"
(similar) serious
3. of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
(similar) primary
4. uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
(synonym) great, majuscule
(similar) uppercase
capital
adj.
capital, momentous, crucial, key, signal
capital (m)
n.
capital, principal, asset, fund
capital
adj.
capital, chief; entire
capital (m)
n.
capital, metropolis; stock; principal