1. capital - Noun
2. capital - Adjective
3. capital - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to the head.
Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
First in importance; chief; principal.
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.
Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
A chapter, or section, of a book.
See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLaissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. Benjamin Tucker
Capital is dead labor,that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. Karl Marx
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. Paul Valéry
Who pays a debt creates capital. Italian Proverb
If lying were a capital crime, the hangman would work overtime. Spanish Proverb
Intelligence is the best capital. German Proverb