capital
[noun]
Synonyms:
- money, assets, cash, finances, funds, investment(s), means, principal, resources, wealth, wherewithal
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- principal, cardinal, major, prime, vital
- first-rate, excellent, fine, splendid, sterling, superb

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Related Words: cardinal, essential, vital, basic, fundamental, underlying

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English Thesaurus: city, town, capital, metropolis, urban, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. cap‧i‧tal¹ S3 W1 /ˈkæpətl, ˈkæpɪtl/ noun
[Sense 1, 3-4: Date: 1600-1700; Origin: ⇒ capital²]
[Sense 2,5: Date: 1600-1700; Language: French; Origin: Italian capitale, from Latin capitalis; ⇒ capital²]
[Sense 6: Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old North French; Origin: capitel, from Late Latin capitellum, from Latin caput; ⇒ capital²]

1. CITY [countable] an important city where the main government of a country, state etc is:
Washington D.C., the capital of the United States

2. MONEY [singular, uncountable] money or property, especially when it is used to start a business or to produce more wealth:
The government is eager to attract foreign capital. ⇒ working capital, venture capital

3. LETTER [countable] a letter of the alphabet written in its large form, used for example at the beginning of someone’s name ⇒ lower case, upper case

4. CENTRE OF ACTIVITY [countable] a place that is a centre for an industry, business, or other activity:
Hollywood is the capital of the movie industry.

5. make capital from/out of something to use a situation or event to help you get an advantage

6. BUILDING [countable] technical the top part of a column (=a long stone post used in some buildings)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. capital² S2 W3 adjective
[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Latin; Origin: capitalis, from caput 'head']

1. a capital letter is one that is written or printed in its large form ⇒ lower case, upper case:
capital ‘B’

2. relating to money that you use to start a business or to make more money:
capital investments

3. capital offence/crime an offence that is punished by death

4. trouble with a capital T, fast with a capital F etc informal used with any word in order to emphasize that you are talking about an extreme type of something

5. old-fashioned excellent

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

Capital 95.8
a radio station in London that mainly broadcasts popular music, but also has news programmes and information about events in London. It also has a separate station called ‘Capital Gold’, which plays older popular music.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

capital
noun
I. money used to start a business, etc.
ADJ. fixed, starting | working | foreign, private | equity, investment, share | risk, venture
VERB + CAPITAL have We don't have enough capital to buy new premises.
accumulate, attract, borrow, generate, raise He had various ideas on how to raise capital for the project.
invest, provide, put (up), sink The company has put a lot of capital into the project. We can't expect the government to put up the capital. He sank vast amounts of capital in the venture.
free up, release, unlock | tie up Our capital is all tied up in property.
CAPITAL + NOUN assets, goods, resources, stock | costs, expenditure, investment, outlay, repayment, spending | accumulation, growth | account | grant | project investment in major capital projects
gain, loss | flows, inflow, movement, outflow, receipt | value the capital value of the property
market
PHRASES capital intensive capital intensive industries
an injection of capital Inner city areas require a large injection of capital.
a return on your capital Investors want an immediate return on their capital.
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[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

capital
II. city
ADJ. great, major The department store has branches in all major capitals.
British, Japanese, etc. | foreign | provincial, regional, state | cultural, financial, etc.
PREP. in a/the ~ the fast pace of life in the capital
~ of
PHRASES … capital of the world Las Vegas is the gambling capital of the world.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

city a large area with houses, shops, offices etc that is often the centre of government for an area. A city is bigger than a town:
The nearest big city is San Francisco.
town a large area with houses, shops, offices etc. A town is smaller than a city:
La Coruña is a pretty seaside town.
capital (also capital city) the city where the government of a country or state is:
We travelled to Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
metropolis a big busy city that is full of people and activity:
After 1850 Paris grew quickly into a busy metropolis.
urban adjective [only before noun] relating to towns and cities:
Air pollution is particularly bad in urban areas.
urban development
the outskirts the area around the edge of a city or just outside it:
Disneyland is on the outskirts of Paris.
suburb an area around the edges of a city, where many people live:
He lives in a suburb of London.
⇒ the suburbs:
More and more people are moving to the suburbs.

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