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You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures)." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.\nHe does not have enough capital to start a business." }, { "mean": "(countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.\n1995, Fang, Linda, The Chʻi-lin Purse: A Collection of Ancient Chinese Stories‎, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:Lin Hsiang-ju immediately said to the king of Ch’in, “If Ta-wang wants fifteen cities from Chao, the king of Chao should also get something in return. What about giving him Hsien-yang as a gift?’ Hsien-yang was the capital of Ch’in.\n2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.   But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.\nWashington D.C. is the capital of the United States of America.\nThe Welsh government claims that Cardiff is Europe’s youngest capital." }, { "mean": "(countable) The most important city in the field specified.\n2010 September, Charlie Brennan, \"Active Athletes\", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 83:\nHollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital." }, { "mean": "(countable) An uppercase letter." }, { "mean": "(countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.\nInterpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession." }, { "mean": "(countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Of prime importance.\n1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions : Preface\na capital article in religion\n1852, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening:whatever is capital and essential in Christianity" }, { "mean": "Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.\nLondon and Paris are capital cities." }, { "mean": "(comparable, Britain, dated) Excellent.\nThat is a capital idea!\n1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 166:Sometimes he laughed heartily as if he heard some capital joke; by degrees this lessened, and he spoke rapidly, but in very low tones." }, { "mean": "(crime) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.\n1709, , A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners. , London: Benj Tooke, , →OCLC, pages 53–54:Neither could the Legiſlature in any thing more conſult the Publick Good, than by providing ſome effectual Remedy againſt this Evil, which in ſeveral Caſes deſerves greater Puniſhment than many Crimes that are capital among us.\n1649, J Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ  , London: Matthew Simmons, , →OCLC:to put to death a capital offender\n2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 517:\nSome 1,600 priests were deported, for example, while the total number of capital victims of the military commissions down to 1799 was only around 150." }, { "mean": "Uppercase.\nAntonym: lower-case\nOne begins a sentence with a capital letter.", "submean": [ "used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness\nYou're a genius with a capital G!\nHe's dead with a capital D!\n2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎:In recent years, much has been made of the lack of new heavyweight male star power in mainstream Hollywood. Talented performers may be everywhere, but Movie Stars, capital M, capital S, are something else." ] }, { "mean": "Of or relating to the head.\n1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain." } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Terms derived from the noun or adjective capital\nblock capital\nblock capitals\ncapital account\ncapital adequacy\ncapital appreciation bond\ncapital asset\ncapital budgeting\ncapital city\ncapital crime\ncapital equipment\ncapital expenditure\ncapital expense\ncapital flight\ncapital gain\ncapital gains tax\ncapital goods\ncapital grant\ncapital intensive\ncapital loss\ncapital market\ncapital market line\ncapital messuage\ncapital murder\ncapital offence\ncapital offense\ncapital punishment\ncapital share\ncapital ship\ncapital stock\ncapital structure\ncapital surplus\ncapital value\ncapital-intensive\ncapitalism\ncultural capital\neconomic capital\nfinancial capital\nhuman capital\nintellectual capital\nmake capital out of\nmarginal cost of capital\nmedial capital\npersonal capital\nprovincial capital\nreal capital\nrisk capital\nshare capital\nsmall capital\nsocial capital\nstate capital\nventure capital\nweighted-average cost of capital\nworking capital" } ] }, { "name": "Related_terms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "capita\ncapitol\ncapitulate\ncapitulation\ncaptain\nchapiter\nchapter" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "파생_항", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "관련_용어", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }