Capital

capital
adjective1first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"2of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"3uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"
noun1assets available for use in the production of further assets2wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value3a seat of government4one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "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"[ant: lower-case letter]5a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia"6the federal government of the United States7a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories[syn: Das Kapital]8the upper part of a column that supports the entablature