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   capital

   /ˈkapɪtl/

   noun

   • 1. the city or town that functions as the seat of government and administrative centre of a country or region: "Warsaw is the capital of Poland" Similar first citymost important cityseat of governmentcentre of administrationmetropolis
   • ▪ a place associated more than any other with a specified activity or product: "the fashion capital of the world"
   • 2. wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available for a purpose such as starting a company or investing: "rates of return on invested capital were high" Similar moneyfinance(s)fundsthe wherewithalthe meansassetswealthresourcesreservesdeep pocketsstockprincipalworking capitalinvestment capitalinformal:doughbreadlootshekelsmoolahthe necessarywadboodledibsgeltducatsrhinogravyscratchstuffoofdoshbrasslollyspondulickswongaackersthe readyreadiesdinerogreenbackssimoleonsbucksjackmazumaOscarinformal, dated:sploshgreentindated:l.s.d.informal, dated:kalerocksshinplastersarchaic:pelf
   • ▪ the excess of a company's assets over its liabilities.
   • ▪ people who possess wealth and use it to control a society's economic activity, considered collectively: "a conflict of interest between capital and labour"
   • ▪ a valuable resource of a particular kind: "there is insufficient investment in human capital"
   • 3. a letter of the size and form used to begin sentences and names: "he wrote the name in capitals" Similar capital letterupper-case letterblock capitalinformal:captechnical:uncialuncial lettermajuscule letter

   adjective

   • 1. (of an offence or charge) liable to the death penalty: "murder is the only capital crime in the state"
   • 2. (of a letter of the alphabet) large in size and of the form used to begin sentences and names.
   • 3. excellent: informal, dated "he's a really capital fellow"

   exclamation

   • 1. used to express approval, satisfaction, or delight: informal, dated British "That's splendid! Capital!"

   Word Origin Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘relating to the head or top’, later ‘standing at the head or beginning’): via Old French from Latin capitalis, from caput ‘head’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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   2 days ago · The word Portugal derives from the combined Roman - Celtic place name Portus Cale [18] [19] (present-day's conurbation of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia ). Porto stems from the Latin for port, portus; Cale ' s meaning and origin is unclear. The mainstream explanation is an ethnonym derived from the Callaeci, also known as the Gallaeci peoples, who ...