| Noun | 1. | capital - assets available for use in the production of further assets assets - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company current assets, liquid assets, quick assets - assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash) stock - the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity); "he owns a controlling share of the company's stock" risk capital, venture capital - wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises operating capital - capital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvements seed money - capital needed to set up a new business or enterprise |
| 2. | capital - wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value endowment fund, endowment - the capital that provides income for an institution assets - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company | |
| 3. | capital - a seat of government seat - a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised) national capital - the capital city of a nation provincial capital - the capital city of a province state capital - the capital city of a political subdivision of a country | |
| 4. | capital - 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"grapheme, graphic symbol, character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" small capital, small cap - a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters | |
| 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 - the federal government of the United States | |
| 7. | Capital - a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories | |
| 8. | capital - the upper part of a column that supports the entablature pillar, column - (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure top - the upper part of anything; "the mower cuts off the tops of the grass"; "the title should be written at the top of the first page" | |
| Adj. | 1. | capital - first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea" Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom superior - of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students" |
| 2. | capital - of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat" primary - of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary; "primary goals"; "a primary effect"; "primary sources"; "a primary interest" | |
| 3. | capital - uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" uppercase - relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc" |
| City | Country |
|---|---|
| Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates |
| Abuja | Nigeria |
| Accra | Ghana |
| Addis Ababa | Ethiopia |
| Astana | Kazakhstan |
| Algiers | Algeria |
| Amman | Jordan |
| Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| Andorra la Vella | Andorra |
| Ankara | Turkey |
| Antananarivo | Madagascar |
| Apia | Samoa |
| Ashkhabad | Turkmenistan |
| Asmara | Eritrea |
| Asunción | Paraguay |
| Athens | Greece |
| Baghdad | Iraq |
| Baku | Azerbaijan |
| Bamako | Mali |
| Bandar Seri Begawan | Brunei |
| Bangkok | Thailand |
| Bangui | Central African Republic |
| Banjul | Gambia |
| Basseterre | St. Kitts and Nevis |
| Beijing | People's Republic of China |
| Beirut or Beyrouth | Lebanon |
| Belfast | Northern Ireland |
| Belgrade | Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) |
| Belmopan | Belize |
| Berlin | Germany |
| Berne | Switzerland |
| Bishkek | Kyrgyzstan |
| Bissau | Guinea-Bissau |
| Bloemfontein | judicial capital of South Africa |
| Bogotá | Colombia |
| Brasília | Brazil |
| Bratislava | Slovakia |
| Brazzaville | Congo (Republic of) |
| Bridgetown | Barbados |
| Brussels | Belgium |
| Bucharest | Romania |
| Budapest | Hungary |
| Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| Bujumbura | Burundi |
| Cairo | Egypt |
| Canberra | Australia |
| Cape Town | legislative capital of South Africa |
| Caracas | Venezuela |
| Cardiff | Wales |
| Castries | St. Lucia |
| Cayenne | French Guiana |
| Colombo | Sri Lanka |
| Conakry or Konakry | Guinea |
| Copenhagen | Denmark |
| Dakar | Senegal |
| Damascus | Syria |
| Delhi | India |
| Dhaka or Dacca | Bangladesh |
| Dili | East Timor |
| Djibouti or Jibouti | Djibouti or Jibouti |
| Dodoma | Tanzania |
| Doha | Qatar |
| Douglas | Isle of Man |
| Dublin | Republic of Ireland |
| Dushanbe | Tajikistan |
| Edinburgh | Scotland |
| Fort-de-France | Martinique |
| Freetown | Sierra Leone |
| Funafuti | Tuvalu |
| Gaborone | Botswana |
| Georgetown | Guyana |
| Guatemala City | Guatemala |
| Hanoi | Vietnam |
| Harare | Zimbabwe |
| Havana | Cuba |
| Helsinki | Finland |
| Honiara | Solomon Islands |
| Islamabad | Pakistan |
| Jakarta or Djakarta | Indonesia |
| Jerusalem | Israel |
| Kabul | Afghanistan |
| Kampala | Uganda |
| Katmandu or Kathmandu | Nepal |
| Khartoum or Khartum | Sudan |
| Kiev | Ukraine |
| Kigali | Rwanda |
| Kingston | Jamaica |
| Kingstown | St. Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Kinshasa | Congo (Democratic Republic of) |
| Kishinev | Moldova |
| Palikir | Micronesia |
| Koror | Palau |
| Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia |
| Kuwait | Kuwait |
| La Paz | administrative capital of Bolivia |
| Libreville | Gabon |
| Lilongwe | Malawi |
| Lima | Peru |
| Lisbon | Portugal |
| Ljubljana | Slovenia |
| Lomé | Togo |
| London | United Kingdom |
| Luanda | Angola |
| Lusaka | Zambia |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| Madrid | Spain |
| Majuro | Marshall Islands |
| Malabo | Equatorial Guinea |
| Malé | Maldives |
| Managua | Nicaragua |
| Manama | Bahrain |
| Manila | Philippines |
| Maputo | Mozambique |
| Maseru | Lesotho |
| Mbabane | Swaziland |
| Mexico City | Mexico |
| Minsk | Belarus |
| Mogadishu | Somalia |
| Monaco-Ville | Monaco |
| Monrovia | Liberia |
| Montevideo | Uruguay |
| Moroni | Comoros |
| Moscow | Russia |
| Muscat | Oman |
| Nairobi | Kenya |
| Nassau | Bahamas |
| Ndjamena | Chad |
| Niamey | Niger |
| Nicosia | Cyprus |
| Nouakchott | Mauritania |
| Nuku'alofa | Tonga |
| Nuuk | Greenland |
| Oslo | Norway |
| Ottawa | Canada |
| Ouagadougou | Burkina-Faso |
| Panama City | Panama |
| Paramaribo | Suriname |
| Paris | France |
| Phnom Penh | Cambodia |
| Pishpek | Kirghizia |
| Port-au-Prince | Haiti |
| Port Louis | Mauritius |
| Port Moresby | Papua New Guinea |
| Port of Spain | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Porto Novo | Benin |
| Prague | Czech Republic |
| Praia | Cape Verde |
| Pretoria | administrative capital of South Africa |
| Pristina | Kosovo (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) |
| Pyongyang | North Korea |
| Quito | Ecuador |
| Rabat | Morocco |
| Reykjavik | Iceland |
| Riga | Latvia |
| Riyadh | Saudi Arabia |
| Rome | Italy |
| Roseau | Dominica |
| San`a | Yemen |
| San José | Costa Rica |
| San Juan | Puerto Rico |
| San Marino | San Marino |
| San Salvador | El Slavador |
| Santiago | Chile |
| Santo Domingo | Dominican Republic |
| São Tomé | São Tomé and Principe |
| Sarajevo | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Seoul | South Korea |
| Singapore | Singapore |
| Skopje | Macedonia |
| Sofia | Bulgaria |
| St. George's | Grenada |
| St. John's | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Stockholm | Sweden |
| Sucre | legislative and judicial capital of Bolivia |
| Suva | Fiji |
| Taipei | Taiwan |
| Tallinn | Estonia |
| Tarawa | Kiribati |
| Tashkent | Uzbekistan |
| Tbilisi | Georgia |
| Tegucigalpa | Honduras |
| Tehran | Iran |
| Tel Aviv | Israel |
| Thimphu | Bhutan |
| Tirana | Albania |
| Tokyo | Japan |
| Tripoli | Libya |
| Tunis | Tunisia |
| Ulan Bator | Mongolia |
| Vaduz | Liechtenstein |
| Valletta | Malta |
| Vatican City | Vatican City |
| Victoria | Seychelles |
| Vienna | Austria |
| Vientiane | Laos |
| Port Vila | Vanuatu |
| Vilnius | Lithuania |
| Warsaw | Poland |
| Washington DC | United States of America |
| Wellington | New Zealand |
| Windhoek | Namibia |
| Yamoussoukro | Côte d'Ivoire |
| Yangon (Rangoon) | Myanmar (Burma) |
| Yaoundé or Yaunde | Cameroon |
| Yaren | Nauru |
| Yerevan | Armenia |
| Zagreb | Croatia |