capitalnoun
uk/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/us/ˈkæp.ə.t̬əl/capital noun (CITY)
A2 [ C ] a city that is the centre of government of a country or smaller political area:
[ C ] the most important place for a particular business or activity:
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- In defiance of the ceasefire, rebel troops are again firing on the capital.
- Fighting around the capital has intensified in the last few hours.
- More people live in the capital than in the whole of the rest of the country.
- There is strong support here for the tough economic reforms ordained in the federal capital, Prague.
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Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
- aerotropolis
- backwater
- bedroom community
- Cantabrigian
- conurbation
- county borough
- dormitory town
- ghost town
- Greater
- hill station
- hometown
- megacity
- metropolis
- one-horse town
- port
- settlement
- small-town
- spa
- town
- urbanite
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capital noun (LETTER)
A2 [ C ] also capital letter a letter of the alphabet in the form and larger size that is used at the beginning of sentences and names:
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- Names always start with capitals.
- If you write your emails in capitals, it looks as though you are shouting.
- The company's trademark is written in capitals.
- If the text is in capitals, it is difficult to read.
- For some reason, she always writes in capitals.
- It's considered rude to use capital letters in an email because it looks like YOU ARE SHOUTING.
- The poet e. e. cummings wrote his name with small letters, not capital letters.
- Don't forget to put a capital letter on a proper name, like the name of a place or person.
- Every sentence should begin with a capital letter.
- Romantic, written with a capital letter, refers to a specific movement in art and literature.
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Lettering & alphabets
- ABC
- camel case
- copperplate
- cuneiform
- cursive
- Cyrillic
- hand-lettered
- hieroglyph
- ideogram
- incapping
- initial
- kanji
- letter
- notation
- penmanship
- phonetic
- rune
- script
- stenography
- upper case
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capital noun (MONEY)
[ U ] money and possessions, especially a large amount of money used for producing more wealth or for starting a new business:
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- The central bank has announced controls on capital outflows.
- I want to start my own business if I can raise the capital.
- We're only a small business and don't have the capital to compete with the big boys.
- They'll need to raise £1 million in venture capital if they're to get the business off the ground.
- She leaves her capital untouched in the bank and lives off the interest.
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Accounting
- accountancy
- accountant
- accounting
- accounts
- annualized
- arrears
- auditor
- balance
- bill
- budget
- capital gains
- costing
- double entry bookkeeping
- false accounting
- fraudulent accounting
- FRS
- GAAP
- housekeeping
- loss
- square
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capital noun (COLUMN)
[ C ] specialized architecture the top part of a column
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Parts of buildings: arches, columns & beams
- arch
- architrave
- archway
- beam
- colonnade
- column
- corbel
- Corinthian
- Doric
- Ionic
- joist
- keystone
- pedestal
- pillar
- plinth
- portico
- truss
- vault
- vaulted
- vaulting
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capitaladjective
uk/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/us/ˈkæp.ə.t̬əl/capital adjective (LETTER)
(of a letter of the alphabet) in the form and larger size that is used at the beginning of sentences and names:
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Punctuation
- ampersand
- asterisk
- capitalize
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphen
- hyphenate
- parentheses
- period
- punctuation
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quotation marks
- stroke
- tilde
- upper case
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capital adjective (DEATH)
a crime that can be punished by death:
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Death penalties
- behead
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- decapitate
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- firing squad
- gallows
- hanging
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- string
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capital adjective (EXCELLENT)
UK old-fashioned very good or excellent:
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Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incomparable
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- outstanding
- parallel
- sterling
- superb
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
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