capital

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The most important city of a country or region, usually where the government is.

   Paris is the capital of France.

2. 2
   noun

   A large letter used at the start of names and sentences.

   Write your name in capitals at the top of the form.

3. 3
   noun

   Money and wealth used to start or run a business.

   They needed to raise enough capital to open a second shop.

4. 4
   noun

   A place that is most famous for a particular activity or product.

   The town calls itself the chocolate capital of the country.

Common collocations

• capital expenditure Noun + noun
• capital levy Noun + noun
• provincial capital Adjective + noun

From Middle English capitale, partly from Old French capital and partly from Late Latin capitellum (“capital or chapiter of a column”), a form of Latin capitulum (“head-like object or structure; chapter”) (whence English capitulum, chapter, and the synonym chapiter (“uppermost part of a column”)), from caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix). Doublet of caddie, cadel, cadet, capitellum, and caudillo.

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