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