Main entry: cap, capital, chapiter
Definition: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
Main entry: majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, capital, capital letter
Definition: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
Usage: 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
Main entry: Capital, Das Kapital
Definition: a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
Main entry: Capital, Washington
Definition: the federal government of the United States
Main entry: capital
Definition: a seat of government
Main entry: capital
Definition: a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
Usage: the crime capital of Italy; the drug capital of Columbia
Main entry: capital
Definition: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
Main entry: working capital, capital
Definition: assets available for use in the production of further assets
Main entry: majuscule, capital, great
Definition: uppercase
Usage: capital A; great A; many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script
Main entry: capital
Definition: of primary importance
Usage: our capital concern was to avoid defeat
Main entry: capital
Definition: first-rate
Usage: a capital fellow; a capital idea