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nounthe upper part of a column that supports the entablature
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nounthe federal government of the United States
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"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"nounone of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasistype of:
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nounassets available for use in the production of further assets
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"capital A"adjectiveuppercase
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nouna book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
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"the crime capital of Italy" "the drug capital of Columbia"nouna center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
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nouna seat of governmenttype of:
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"a capital fellow" "a capital idea"adjectivefirst-rate
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"our capital concern was to avoid defeat"adjectiveof primary importance
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nounwealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic valuetype of:
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- rome capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
- principal capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
- jackson capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River
- berlin capital of Germany located in eastern Germany
- pierre capital of the state of South Dakota; located in central South Dakota on the Missouri river
- jerusalem capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed); it was captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom
- lincoln capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska
- helena capital of the state of Montana; located in western Montana
- victoria capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia on Vancouver Island
- beijing capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city