Noun:
1: working capital, capital assets available for use in the production of further assets
2: capital wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
3: capital a seat of government
4: upper-case letter, capital, majuscule, uppercase, 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"
5: 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"
6: capital, washington the federal government of the United States
7: capital, das kapital a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
8: capital, chapiter, cap the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
Adjective:
1: superior, capital first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
2: capital, primary of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"
3: capital, uppercase, majuscule, great uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"