capital

Sense 1 noun

assets available for use in the production of further assets

Sense 2 adjective

first-rate

a capital fellow

Sense 3 noun

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

Sense 4 adjective

of primary importance

our capital concern was to avoid defeat

Sense 5 noun

a seat of government

Sense 6 adjective

uppercase

capital A

Sense 7 noun

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

Sense 8 noun

a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product

the crime capital of Italy

Sense 9 noun

the upper part of a column that supports the entablature