capital

Noun
  1. Assets available for use in the production of further assets (synset 113375435)
    is a type of: assets - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company
    subtypes:
    • stock - the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
    • risk capital, venture capital - wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises
    • operating capital - capital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvements
    • seed money - capital needed to set up a new business or enterprise
    member holonym: current assets, liquid assets, quick assets - assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash)
    same as: working capital
  2. Wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value (synset 113374622)
    is a type of: assets - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company
    subtypes:
  3. A seat of government (synset 108535783)
    is a type of: seat - a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)
    subtypes:
    specific instances: camelot - (Arthurian legend) the capital of King Arthur's kingdom; according to the legend, truth and goodness and beauty reigned there
  4. One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis (synset 106837277)
    "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"
    is a type of: character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
    subtypes: small cap, small capital - a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
    same as: capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase
  5. A center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product (synset 108535930)
    "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia"
    is a type of: center, centre - a place where some particular activity is concentrated
  6. The federal government of the United States (synset 108374056)
    is an instance of: federal government - a government with strong central powers
    same as: washington
  7. A book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories (synset 107297634)
    is an instance of: book - a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
    same as: das kapital
  8. The upper part of a column that supports the entablature (synset 102959683)
    is a type of: top - the upper part of anything
    is a part of: column, pillar - (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
    same as: cap, chapiter
Adjective
  1. First-rate (synset 302350884)
    "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
    domain region: britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
    similar to: superior - of high or superior quality or performance
  2. Of primary importance (synset 301858476)
    "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
    similar to: primary - of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary
  3. Uppercase (synset 301470834)
    "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
    similar to: uppercase - relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
    same as: great, majuscule

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