capital
     adj 1: first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"
     2: punishable by death; "a capital offense"
     3: of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid
        defeat"
     4: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval
        manuscripts are in majuscule script" [syn: {great}, {majuscule}]
     n 1: assets available for use in the production of further assets
          [syn: {working capital}]
     2: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or
        business and human resources of economic value
     3: a seat of government
     4: 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" [syn: {capital letter}, {upper
        case}, {upper-case letter}, {majuscule}] [ant: {small
        letter}]
     5: a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic
        theories [syn: {Das Kapital}]
     6: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
        [syn: {chapiter}, {cap}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0