Meaning & Definition of Capital in English

1. Assets available for use in the production of further assets

2. Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

3. A seat of government

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"

5. A center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product

• "The crime capital of italy"

• "The drug capital of columbia"

6. The federal government of the united states

7. A book written by karl marx (1867) describing his economic theories

8. The upper part of a column that supports the entablature

1. First-rate

• "A capital fellow"

• "A capital idea"

2. Of primary importance

• "Our capital concern was to avoid defeat"

3. Uppercase

• "Capital a"

• "Great a"

• "Many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"