capital

Meaning

1. Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
2. Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
3. 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.
4. The most important city in the field specified.
5. An uppercase letter.
6. Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
7. The chief or most important thing.

metropolis

principal

upper-case letter

amount of money

chapiter

outside capital

own capital

small cap

upper-case character

urban area

hoarded wealth

principal sum

worldly goods

flower capital

old Kyoto

Kyoto and its environs

small capital

king’s ransom

principal city

owner’s equity

Statehouse

column top

borough

bull’s eye

cash assets

equity capital

financial means

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkæpɪtəl/

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.