Capital
nounAdjective
uppercase
“capital A”
first-rate
“a capital fellow”
“a capital idea”
of primary importance
“our capital concern was to avoid defeat”
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”
Similar:MajusculeUppercaseType of:GraphCharacterGraphemea center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
“the crime capital of Italy”
“the drug capital of Columbia”
Type of:CentreCenterthe upper part of a column that supports the entablature
Type of:Topassets available for use in the production of further assets
Type of:Assetsthe federal government of the United States
Similar:Washingtona book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
a seat of government
Type of:Seatwealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
Type of:Assets
Dictionary Validity
- Tournament Word List (TWL)
- Scrabble US
- Collins Scrabble Words (CSW21)
- Scrabble UK
- ENABLE Dictionary
- Words With Friends
- Combined US/UK Scrabble Dictionary
- SOWPODS
- North American Scrabble (NWL2020)
- NASPA
Similar Words
- Cap
- Chapiter
- Washington
- Majuscule
- Uppercase
- Great
- Superior
- Primary
- Capitalize
- Capitalise
- Capitalist