capital

Noun

1. (uncountable) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
2. (uncountable) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
3. (uncountable) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
4. (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
5. (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
6. (countable) An uppercase letter.
7. (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
8. (broadly, countable) The chief or most important thing.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Of prime importance.
2. (not-comparable) Chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation).
3. (UK, comparable, dated, not-comparable) Excellent.
4. (not-comparable) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
5. (not-comparable) Uppercase.
6. (not-comparable) Uppercase.
7. (not-comparable) Of or relating to the head.

Intj

used as an expression of approval, satisfaction, or delight.

Opposite of

lower-case

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkæpɪtəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: capital

Cognate with English: cap

Inherited from Middle English: capitale

In summary

From Middle English capital, borrowed partly from Old French capital and partly from Latin capitālis (“of the head”) (in sense “head of cattle”), from caput (“head”) (English cap) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Use in trade and finance originated in Medieval economies when a common but expensive transaction involved trading heads of cattle. The noun is from the adjective.
Compare chattel and kith and kine (“all one’s possessions”), which also use “cow” to mean “property”.
Doublet of cattle and chattel.

Synonyms

metropolis

principal

capital city

property

fund

funds

capital letter

majuscule

city

🏙️

estate

assets

money

💸

main

stock

uppercase

asset

ownership

upper case

chief

great

town

🏙️

central

splendid

prime

leading

primary

center

wealth

cap

superb

metropolitan

investment

upper-case letter

fortune

finances

block capital

excellent

smashing

capitol

sublime

beautiful

cost

resources

seat

💺

major

groovy

head

magnificent

peachy

chapiter

Translations

capital

capitale

capital

capitale

Kapital

capital

Hauptstadt

capital

kapitał

hoofdstad

mayúscula

stolica

majuscule

kapitaal

başkent

Sentences

The asteroid is named after the Japanese capital Tokyo .

Smith supports capital punishment .

It is the capital of Zamfara State .

The organisation was again profitable and repaying its capital costs .