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say it: KAP-uh-tuhl
capital is a noun and adjective meaning "assets available for use in the production of further assets". It is pronounced /ˈkæpətəl/ — KAP-uh-tuhl. It carries 11 recorded senses.
assets available for use in the production of further assets
wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
a seat of government
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”
a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
“the crime capital of Italy”
“the drug capital of Columbia”
the federal government of the United States
a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for capital come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.