capital

assets available for use in the production of further assets

wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

a seat of government

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”

a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

first-rate

• “a capital fellow”
• “a capital idea”

punishable by death

• “a capital offense”

of primary important

• “our capital concern was to avoid defeat”

of things that make you feel sad

• “sad news”
• “she doesn”
• “;”
• “;”