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cap⋅i⋅tal

1 [kap-i-tl]

–noun

1.	the city or town that is the official seat of government in a country, state, etc.: Tokyo is the capital of Japan.

2.	a city regarded as being of special eminence in some field of activity: New York is the dance capital of the world.

3.	capital letter.

4.	the wealth, whether in money or property, owned or employed in business by an individual, firm, corporation, etc.

5.	an accumulated stock of such wealth.

6.	any form of wealth employed or capable of being employed in the production of more wealth.

Accounting.

a.	assets remaining after deduction of liabilities; the net worth of a business.

b.	the ownership interest in a business.

8.	any source of profit, advantage, power, etc.; asset: His indefatigable drive is his greatest capital.

9.	capitalists as a group or class (distinguished from labor ): High taxation has reduced the spending power of capital.

–adjective

10.	pertaining to financial capital: capital stock.

11.	principal; highly important: This guide offers suggestions of capital interest to travelers.

12.	chief, esp. as being the official seat of government of a country, state, etc.: the capital city of France.

13.	excellent or first-rate: a capital hotel; a capital fellow.

14.	capital letter.

15.	involving the loss of life: capital punishment.

16.	punishable by death: a capital crime; a capital offender.

17.	fatal; extremely serious: a capital error.

Origin:
1175–1225; ME; (adj.) (< AF) < L capitālis of the head (capit-, s. of caput head, + -ālis -al ¹ ); (n.) < ML capitāle wealth, n. use of neut. of capitālis (adj.)

Related forms:

cap⋅i⋅tal⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
4. principal, investment, assets, stock. 11. prime, primary, first. The adjectives capital, chief, major, principal apply to a main or leading representative of a kind. Capital may mean larger or more prominent; it may also suggest preeminence or excellence: capital letter, idea, virtue, etc. Chief means leading, highest in office or power: the chief clerk. Major may refer to greatness of importance, number, or quantity: a major operation, the major part of a population. Principal refers to most distinguished, influential, or foremost: principal officer.

Antonyms:
11. trivial, minor.

Usage note:
The noun capital¹ refers to a city or town that is the seat of government; to a capital letter as opposed to a lowercase letter; and to wealth or resources. The noun Capitol refers primarily to the building in Washington, D.C., in which Congress sits or to similar buildings used by state legislatures.

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cap⋅i⋅tal

2 [kap-i-tl]

–noun Architecture.

the distinctively treated upper end of a column, pier, or the like.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME capitale head (n. use of neut. of L adj.) for L capitellum, equiv. to capit- (s. of caput) head + -ellum dim. suffix

capital letter

–noun

a letter of the alphabet that usually differs from its corresponding lowercase letter in form and height, as A, B, Q, and R as distinguished from a, b, q, and r: used as the initial letter of a proper name, the first word of a sentence, etc.

Also called capital.

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cap·i·tal¹ (kāp'ĭ-tl)

1. A town or city that is the official seat of government in a political entity, such as a state or nation.
2. A city that is the center of a specific activity or industry: the financial capital of the world.
3. Wealth in the form of money or property, used or accumulated in a business by a person, partnership, or corporation.
4. Material wealth used or available for use in the production of more wealth.
5. Human resources considered in terms of their contributions to an economy: "[The] swift unveiling of his . . . plans provoked a flight of human capital" (George F. Will).
1. Wealth in the form of money or property, used or accumulated in a business by a person, partnership, or corporation.
2. Material wealth used or available for use in the production of more wealth.
3. Human resources considered in terms of their contributions to an economy: "[The] swift unveiling of his . . . plans provoked a flight of human capital" (George F. Will).
Accounting The remaining assets of a business after all liabilities have been deducted; net worth.
Capital stock.
Capitalists considered as a group or class.
An asset or advantage: "profited from political capital accumulated by others" (Michael Mandelbaum).
A capital letter.

adj.

First and foremost; principal: a decision of capital importance.
First-rate; excellent: a capital idea.
Relating to or being a seat of government.
Extremely serious: a capital blunder.
Involving death or calling for the death penalty: a capital offense.
Of or relating to financial assets, especially being or related to those financial assets that add to the net worth of a business: made capital improvements at the plant site.
Relating to or being a capital letter.

[From Middle English, principal, from Old French, from Latin capitālis, from caput, head, money laid out; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.]

Usage Note: The term for a town or city that serves as a seat of government is spelled capital. The term for the building in which a legislative assembly meets is spelled capitol.

cap·i·tal² (kāp'ĭ-tl)

n. Architecture
The top part of a pillar or column.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin capitellum, diminutive of Latin caput, head; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.]

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Capital

Cap"i*tal\, a. [F. capital, L. capitalis capital (in senses 1 & 2), fr. caput head. See Chief, and cf. Capital, n.]

1. Of or pertaining to the head. [Obs.]

Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. --Milton.

2. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.

Many crimes that are capital among us. --Swift.

To put to death a capital offender. --Milton.

3. First in importance; chief; principal.

A capital article in religion --Atterbury.

Whatever is capital and essential in Christianity. --I. Taylor.

4. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.

5. Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song. [Colloq.]

Capital letter [F, lettre capitale] (Print.), a leading or heading letter, used at the beginning of a sentence and as the first letter of certain words, distinguished, for the most part, both by different form and larger size, from the small (lower-case) letters, which form the greater part of common print or writing.

Small capital letters have the form of capital letters and height of the body of the lower-case letters.

Capital stock, money, property, or stock invested in any business, or the enterprise of any corporation or institution. --Abbott.

Syn: Chief; leading; controlling; prominent.

Capital

Cap"i*tal\, n. [Cf. L. capitellum and Capitulum, a small head, the head, top, or capital of a column, dim. of caput head; F. chapiteau, OF. capitel. See Chief, and cf. Cattle, Chattel, Chapiter, Chapter.]

1. (Arch.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

2. [Cf. F. capilate, fem., sc. ville.] (Geog.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. "A busy and splendid capital" --Macauly.

3. [Cf. F. capital.] Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.

4. (Polit. Econ.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. --M'Culloch.

Note: When wealth is used to assist production it is called capital. The capital of a civilized community includes fixed capital (i.e. buildings, machines, and roads used in the course of production and exchange) amd circulating capital (i.e., food, fuel, money, etc., spent in the course of production and exchange). --T. Raleigh.

5. Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.

He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture. --London Times.

6. (Fort.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

7. A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.]

Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital. --Sir W. Scott.

8. (Print.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a.

Active capital. See under Active,

Small capital (Print.), a small capital letter. See under Capital, a.

To live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.

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Language Translation for : capital

Spanish: capital,

German: die Hauptstadt,

Japanese: 首都

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capital

In architecture, the top portion of a column.

Note: The form of the capital often serves to distinguish one style of architecture from another. For example, the Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic styles of Greek architecture all have different capitals.

capital

Money used to finance the purchase of the means of production, such as machines, or the machines themselves.

capital

c.1225, from L. capitalis "of the head," from caput (gen. capitis) "head" (see head). A capital crime (1526) is one that affects the life, or the "head." The noun for "chief town" is first recorded 1667 (the O.E. word was heafodstol). The financial sense (1630) is from L.L. capitale "stock, property," neut. of capitalis. Of ships, "first-rate, of the line," attested from 1652. Capital letters (c.1391) are at the "head" of a sentence or word. Capitalism first recorded 1854; originally "the condition of having capital;" as a political/economic system, 1877. Capitalist is 1791, from Fr. capitaliste, a coinage of the Revolution and a term of reproach.

Capital

1. Financial assets or the financial value of assets such as cash.

2. The factories, machinery, and equipment owned by a business.

Investopedia Commentary

Capital is an extremely vague term that depends on the context for a specific definition. In general, it refers to financial resources available for use.

Main Entry: cap·i·tal
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin capitalis, from caput head, a person's life (as forfeit)
1 a : punishable by death <capital murder> b : involving execution capital case>
2Etymology: Medieval Latin capitalis chief, principal, from Latin caput head
: being the seat of government capital city>
3 : of or relating to capital; especially : of or relating to capital assets capital account> capital or ordinary>

Main Entry: capital
Function: noun
1 : accumulated assets (as money) invested or available for investment: as a : goods (as equipment) used to produce other goods b : property (as stocks) used to create income —see also capital stock at STOCK

debt capital
: capital that is raised by borrowing (as by issuing bonds or securing loans)

equity capital
: capital (as retained earnings) that is free of debt; especially : PAID-IN CAPITAL in this entry

fixed capital
: capital that is invested on a long-term basis; especially : capital that is invested in fixed assets

legal capital
: STATED CAPITAL in this entry

moneyed capital
: capital that consists of or represents money that is used or invested (as by a bank or investment company) for the purpose of making a profit on it as money —see also moneyed corporation at CORPORATION

paid–in capital
: equity capital that is received in exchange for an interest (as shares of stock) in the ownership of a business

risk capital
: VENTURE CAPITAL in this entry

stat·ed capital
: the total par value or stated value of no par issues of outstanding capital stock called also legal capital

ven·ture capital
: the initial usually paid-in capital of a new enterprise involving risk but offering potential above-average profits called also risk capital

work·ing capital
: the capital available for use in the course of business activity: a : current assets less current liabilities b : all capital of a business except the fixed capital
2 : NET WORTH
3 : a city serving as a seat of government capital>

capital

see make capital out of.

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