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English adjective: capital | |||
| 1. | capital first-rate | ||
| Samples | A capital fellow. A capital idea. | ||
| Similar | superior | ||
| Domain region | Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | ||
| Antonyms | inferior | ||
| 2. | capital of primary importance | ||
| Samples | Our capital concern was to avoid defeat. | ||
| Similar | primary | ||
| Antonyms | secondary | ||
| 3. | capital uppercase | ||
| Samples | Capital A. Great A. Many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script. | ||
| Synonyms | great, majuscule | ||
| Similar | uppercase | ||
| Antonyms | lowercase | ||
English noun: capital | |||
| 1. | capital (possession) assets available for use in the production of further assets | ||
| Synonyms | working capital | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | assets | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | operating capital, risk capital, seed money, stock, venture capital | ||
| Member holonym | current assets, liquid assets, quick assets | ||
| 2. | capital (possession) wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | assets | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | corpus, endowment, endowment fund, means, principal, principal sum, substance | ||
| 3. | capital (location) a seat of government | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | seat | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | national capital, provincial capital, state capital | ||
| Instance hyponym | Belfast, Bridgetown, Camelot, capital of Barbados, capital of Northern Ireland, Cardiff, Edinburgh, George Town | ||
| 4. | capital (communication) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | character, grapheme, graphic symbol | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | small cap, small capital | ||
| Antonyms | lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter | ||
| 5. | capital (location) a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product | ||
| Samples | The crime capital of Italy. The drug capital of Columbia. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | center, centre | ||
| 6. | Capital (group) the federal government of the United States | ||
| Synonyms | Washington | ||
| Instance hypernym | federal government | ||
| 7. | Capital (communication) a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories | ||
| Synonyms | Das Kapital | ||
| Instance hypernym | book | ||
| 8. | capital (artifact) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | ||
| Synonyms | cap, chapiter | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | top | ||
| Part meronym | column, pillar | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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