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Meaning of capital

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  capital
      adj 1: first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
      2: of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid
         defeat"
      3: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts
         are in majuscule script" [syn: {capital}, {great},
         {majuscule}]
      n 1: assets available for use in the production of further
           assets [syn: {capital}, {working capital}]
      2: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or
         business and human resources of economic value
      3: a seat of government
      4: one 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" [syn: {capital}, {capital letter}, {uppercase},
         {upper-case letter}, {majuscule}] [ant: {lower-case letter},
         {lowercase}, {minuscule}, {small letter}]
      5: a center that is associated more than any other with some
         activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug
         capital of Columbia"
      6: the federal government of the United States [syn: {Capital},
         {Washington}]
      7: a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic
         theories [syn: {Das Kapital}, {Capital}]
      8: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
         [syn: {capital}, {chapiter}, {cap}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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