Meaning of capital
Definition of capital
wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
a seat of government
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"
a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia"
the federal government of the United States