Capital Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0

capital adj
1. first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
2. punishable by death; "a capital offense"
3. of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
4. uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" [syn: great, majuscule] n
5. assets available for use in the production of further assets [syn: working capital]
6. wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
7. a seat of government
8. 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 letter, upper case, upper-case letter, majuscule] [ant: small letter}]
9. a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories [syn: Das Kapital]
10. the upper part of a column that supports the entablature [syn: chapiter, cap]

Capital Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Capital \Cap"i*tal\, a. [F. capital, L. capitalis capital (in senses 1 & 2), fr. caput head. See Chief, and cf. Capital, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to the head. [Obs.] Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise Expect with mortal pain. --Milton.
2. Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment. Many crimes that are capital among us. --Swift. To put to death a capital offender. --Milton.
3. First in importance; chief; principal. A capital article in religion --Atterbury. Whatever is capital and essential in Christianity. --I. Taylor.
4. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
5. Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song. [Colloq.]

Capital Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Capital \Cap"i*tal\, n. [Cf. L. capitellum and Capitulum, a small head, the head, top, or capital of a column, dim. of

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* High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. - Robert Francis Kennedy

* Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. - Sigmund Freud

* It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. - Conan Doyle


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