Inside the Universes

Words with a similar base: capital, capital_letter, working_capital

'capital'

[capital.n.01] as in: assets available for use in the production of further assets

'capital'

[capital.n.02] as in: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

'capital'

[capital.n.03] as in: a seat of government

'capital'

[capital.n.04] as in: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

Examples:
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

'capital'

[capital.n.05] as in: a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product

Examples:
the crime capital of Italy
the drug capital of Columbia

'capital'

[capital.n.06] as in: the federal government of the United States

'capital'

[das_kapital.n.01] as in: a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

'capital'

[capital.n.08] as in: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

'capital'

[capital.s.01] as in: first-rate

Examples:
a capital fellow
a capital idea

'capital'

[capital.s.02] as in: of primary importance

Examples:
our capital concern was to avoid defeat

'capital'

[capital.s.03] as in: uppercase

Examples:
capital A
great A
many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script

Origins

					capital (English)
└── capitalis (Latin)
    └── caput (Latin)