"capitals" in the noun sense
1. capital, working capital
assets available for use in the production of further assets
2. capital
wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
3. capital
a seat of government
4. capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
"printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases
5. capital
a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
"the crime capital of Italy"
"the drug capital of Columbia"
6. Capital, Washington
the federal government of the United States
7. Das Kapital, Capital
a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories
8. capital, chapiter, cap
the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
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