capital : Idioms & Phrases

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• money, or property that may readily be converted into money.

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• noun the capital and largest city of Albania in the center of the country
  Tirana.
  

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• noun an ancient port on the Mediterranean; the capital and largest city of Algeria
  Algiers.
  

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• noun the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791
  Washington D.C.; Washington; American capital.
  

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• noun port city on Atlantic coast; the capital and largest city of Angola
  Luanda.
  

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• noun the capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia
  Australian capital; Canberra.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Austria; located on the Danube in northeastern Austria; was the home of Beethoven and Brahms and Haydn and Mozart and Schubert and Strauss
  Austrian capital; Vienna.
  

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• (Arch.), a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute.

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• noun the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  Bruxelles; Brussels; Belgian capital.
  

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• noun a plain hand-drawn letter
  block letter.
  

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• noun the capital of Brazil; a city built on the central plateau and inaugurated in 1960
  Brasilia; Brazilian capital.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
  Greater London; British capital; London.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria
  Serdica; Sofia.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Kampuchea
  Phnom Penh; Pnom Penh.
  

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• noun the capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec)
  Canadian capital; Ottawa.
  

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• noun (economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securities
  
• noun (finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date
  

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• noun the opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if it chose another investment with equivalent risk
  capital cost.
  

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• noun the cost of long-term improvements
  

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• noun the amount by which the selling price of an asset exceeds the purchase price; the gain is realized when the asset is sold
  

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• noun a tax on capital gains
  
  • he avoided the capital gains tax by short selling

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• noun one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
  uppercase; upper-case letter; majuscule; capital.
  
  • printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases

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• F, lettre capitale (Print.), a leading or heading letter, used at the beginning of a sentence and as the first letter of certain words, distinguished, for the most part, both by different form and larger size, from the small (lower-case) letters, which form the greater part of common print or writing.

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• noun a tax on capital or property
  

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• noun the amount by which the purchase price of an asset exceeds the selling price; the loss is realized when the asset is sold
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Afghanistan; located in eastern Afghanistan
  Kabul.
  

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• noun the state capital of Alabama on the Mobile River
  Montgomery.
  

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• noun the state capital of Alaska
  Juneau.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Antigua and Barbuda; located on the island of Antigua
  St. John's; Saint John's.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Argentina; located in eastern Argentina near Uruguay; Argentina's chief port and industrial and cultural center
  Buenos Aires.
  

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• noun the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation
  Phoenix.
  

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• noun the state capital and largest city of Arkansas in the central part of Arkansas on the Arkansas River
  Little Rock.
  

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• noun capital of Armenia
  Erivan; Jerevan; Yerevan.
  

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• noun the capital of Australia; located in southeastern Australia
  Australian capital; Canberra.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Austria; located on the Danube in northeastern Austria; was the home of Beethoven and Brahms and Haydn and Mozart and Schubert and Strauss
  Austrian capital; Vienna.
  

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• noun a port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production
  Baku.
  

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• noun the capital of Bahrain; located at the northern end of Bahrain Island
  Manama.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Bangladesh
  Dhaka; Dacca.
  

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• noun capital of Barbados; a port city on the southwestern coast of Barbados
  Bridgetown.
  

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• noun the capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States
  Minsk.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  Bruxelles; Brussels; Belgian capital.
  

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• noun the capital of Benin in southwestern part of country on a coastal lagoon
  Porto Novo.
  

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• noun capital city in western Bolivia and the administrative seat of Bolivia's government; largest city in Bolivia
  La Paz.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Botswana in the extreme southeast
  Gaborone.
  

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• noun the capital of Brazil; a city built on the central plateau and inaugurated in 1960
  Brasilia; Brazilian capital.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Burundi
  Bujumbura; Usumbura.
  
  • Usumbura was renamed Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in 1962

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• noun a city in north central California 75 miles to the northeast of San Francisco on the Sacramento River; capital of California
  Sacramento.
  

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• noun the capital of Cameroon
  Yaounde.
  

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• noun the capital of Canada (located in southeastern Ontario across the Ottawa river from Quebec)
  Canadian capital; Ottawa.
  

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• noun the capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island
  Praia; Cidade de Praia.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic
  Bangui.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Chad; located in the southwestern on the Shari river
  N'Djamena; Ndjamena; Fort-Lamy.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Chile; located in central Chile; one of the largest cities in South America
  Santiago; Gran Santiago; Santiago de Chile.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Colombia; located in central Colombia on a high fertile plain
  Bogota.
  

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• noun the state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river
  Mile-High City; Denver.
  

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• noun the state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business
  Hartford.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Costa Rica
  San Jose.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Cuba; located in western Cuba; one of the oldest cities in the Americas
  capital of Cuba; Havana.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Cyprus
  Nicosia.
  

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• noun the capital of the state of Delaware
  Dover.
  

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• noun port city on the Gulf of Aden; the capital and largest city of Djibouti
  Djibouti.
  

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• noun the capital of Ecuador
  Quito.
  

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• noun the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs
  capital of Egypt; Cairo; El Qahira; Al Qahira.
  

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• noun a port city on the Gulf of Finland that is the capital and largest city of Estonia
  Tallin; Tallinn.
  

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• noun the capital of Ethiopia and the country's largest city; located in central Ethiopia
  New Flower; Addis Ababa.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center
  Helsingfors; capital of Finland; Helsinki.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Florida; located in northern Florida
  Tallahassee.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
  Paris; capital of France; City of Light.
  

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• noun the capital of Gabon
  Libreville.
  

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• noun a port city and capital of Gambia
  Banjul.
  

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• noun state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War
  Atlanta.
  
• noun the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river
  Tiflis; Tbilisi.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port
  Accra.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)
  Athinai; Athens; capital of Greece.
  
  • in the 5th century BC ancient Athens was the world's most powerful and civilized city

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• noun the capital and largest city of Grenada
  St. George's.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Guatemala
  Guatemala City.
  

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• noun a port and the capital of Guinea
  Konakri; Conakry.
  

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• noun the capital of Guinea-Bissau
  Bissau.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Hawaii; located on a large bay on the island of Oahu
  capital of Hawaii; Honolulu.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Hungary; located on the Danube River in north-central Hungary
  capital of Hungary; Budapest.
  

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• noun the capital and chief port of Iceland on the southwestern coast of Iceland; buildings are heated by natural hot water
  Reykjavik.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Idaho
  Boise.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Illinois
  Springfield.
  

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• noun the capital of India is a division of the old city of Delhi
  capital of India; New Delhi.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commercial center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race
  Indianapolis.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Indonesia; located on the island of Java; founded by the Dutch in 17th century
  Jakarta; Djakarta.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city in Iowa
  Des Moines.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Iran; located in northern Iran
  Teheran; Tehran; capital of Iran.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River
  Baghdad; Bagdad.
  
  • Baghdad is one of the great cities of the Muslim world

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• noun capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic
  Dublin; capital of Ireland.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed); it was captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom
  Jerusalem.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
  capital of Italy; Rome; Eternal City; Roma.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Jamaica
  capital of Jamaica; Kingston.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan
  Yeddo; Yedo; Tokyo; Edo; Tokio; capital of Japan.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Jordan
  Amman.
  

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• noun the capital of the state of Kansas; located in eastern Kansas on the Kansas river
  Topeka.
  

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• noun remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998
  Akmola; Astana.
  

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• noun the capital of Kentucky; located in northern Kentucky
  Frankfort.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris
  Nairobi.
  

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• noun a seaport on the Persian Gulf and capital of Kuwait
  Kuwait City; Kuwait; Koweit.
  

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• noun the capital of Kyrgyzstan (known as Frunze 1926-1991)
  Frunze; Bishkek; Biskek.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Laos
  Vientiane; capital of Laos.
  

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• noun a port city on the Gulf of Riga that is the capital and largest city of Latvia; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League
  Riga.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean
  Beirut; Bayrut.
  

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• noun the capital of Lesotho; located in northwestern Lesotho
  Maseru.
  

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• noun the capital and chief port and largest city of Liberia
  Monrovia; capital of Liberia.
  

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• noun the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC
  Tarabulus Al-Gharb; Tripoli.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Liechtenstein
  Vaduz.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Lithuania; located in southeastern Lithuania
  Wilno; Vilno; Vilnius; Vilna.
  

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• noun capital of Louisiana
  Baton Rouge.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Luxembourg
  Luxembourg City; Luxemburg; Luxembourg; Luxembourg-Ville.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Madagascar
  Antananarivo.
  

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• noun the capital of the state of Maine
  Augusta.
  

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• noun the capital of Malawi; located in south central Malawi
  Lilongwe.
  

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• noun Malaysia's sparkling new capital
  Putrajaya.
  

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• noun the capital of Malta; located on the northeastern coast of the island
  Valetta; Valletta.
  

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• noun state capital of Maryland; site of the United States Naval Academy
  Annapolis.
  

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• noun state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
  Bean Town; Boston; Hub of the Universe; Beantown.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Mexico is a political and cultural and commercial and industrial center; one of the world's largest cities
  Mexico City; capital of Mexico; Ciudad de Mexico.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Michigan; located in southern Michigan on the Grand River
  Lansing.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river adjacent to Minneapolis; one of the Twin Cities
  St. Paul; Saint Paul.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River
  Jackson.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Missouri; located in central Missouri on the Missouri river
  Jefferson City.
  

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• noun the capital of Moldova
  Kishinev; Chisinau.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Mongolia
  Ulaanbaatar; Kulun; Urga; Ulan Bator.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Montana; located in western Montana
  Helena.
  

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• noun the capital of Morocco; located in the northwestern on the Atlantic coast
  Rabat.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Mozambique
  Maputo.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska
  Lincoln.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Nepal
  Kathmandu; Katmandu.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Nevada; located in western Nevada
  Carson City.
  

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• noun capital of the state of New Hampshire; located in south central New Hampshire on the Merrimack river
  Concord.
  

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• noun capital of the state of New Jersey; located in western New Jersey on the Delaware river
  Trenton.
  

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• noun capital of the state of New Mexico; located in north central New Mexico
  Santa Fe.
  

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• noun state capital of New York; located in eastern New York State on the west bank of the Hudson river
  Albany.
  

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• noun the capital of New Zealand
  Wellington.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Nicaragua
  Managua; capital of Nicaragua.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Niger
  Niamey.
  

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• noun capital of Nigeria in the center of the country
  Abuja; capital of Nigeria.
  

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• noun capital of the state of North Carolina; located in the east central part of the North Carolina
  Raleigh.
  

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• noun capital of the state of North Dakota; located in south central North Dakota overlooking the Missouri river
  Bismarck.
  

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• noun capital of North Korea and an industrial center
  Pyongyang.
  
  • Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city but little of its history has been preserved

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• noun capital and largest city of Northern Ireland; the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland
  Belfast.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on Norway's southern coast
  Christiania; Oslo.
  

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• noun the state capital of Ohio; located in the center of the state; site of Ohio State University
  Columbus.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Oklahoma; the economy is based on oil and livestock
  Oklahoma City.
  

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• noun a port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman
  Muscat; Masqat.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River
  Salem.
  

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• noun the capital of Pakistan in the north on a plateau; the site was chosen in 1959
  Islamabad.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Panama
  Panama City; capital of Panama.
  

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• noun the administrative capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea
  Port Moresby.
  

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• noun the capital and chief port of Paraguay
  Asuncion.
  

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• noun capital of Pennsylvania; located in southern part of state
  Harrisburg.
  

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• noun capital and largest city and economic center of Peru; located in western Peru; was capital of the Spanish empire in the New World until the 19th century
  Lima.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Poland; located in central Poland
  Warszawa; Warsaw.
  

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• noun capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic
  Lisboa; Lisbon.
  

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• noun the capital and chief port of Qatar
  Bida; Doha; El Beda.
  

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• noun capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city
  Beijing; Peking; Peiping.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University
  Providence.
  

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• noun national capital and largest city of Romania in southeastern Romania
  Bucharest; Bucharesti; Bucuresti.
  

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• noun the national capital and largest city of Rwanda; located in central Rwanda
  Kigali.
  

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• noun the capital and only city of San Marino
  San Marino.
  

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• noun joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the central oasis; largest city in Saudi Arabia
  Riyadh.
  

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• noun the capital and chief port and largest city of Senegal
  Dakar.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Serbia and Montenegro; situated on the Danube
  Beograd; Belgrade.
  

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• noun port city and the capital of Seychelles
  Victoria.
  

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• noun port city and the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone
  Freetown.
  

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• noun the capital of Singapore; one of the world's biggest ports
  Singapore.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Slovakia
  Pressburg; Pozsony; Bratislava.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Somalia; a port on the Indian Ocean
  Mogadishu; Mogadiscio.
  

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• noun city in the Transvaal; the seat of the executive branch of the government of South Africa
  Pretoria.
  

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• noun capital and largest city in South Carolina; located in central South Carolina
  Columbia.
  

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• noun capital of the state of South Dakota; located in central South Dakota on the Missouri river
  Pierre.
  

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• noun the capital of South Korea and the largest city of Asia; located in northwestern South Korea
  Seoul.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city situated centrally in Spain; home of an outstanding art museum
  Madrid; capital of Spain.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Sri Lanka; has one of the largest harbors in the world; is located on the western coast of the island of Ceylon
  Colombo.
  

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• noun the capital of Sudan located at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile
  Khartoum.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city and major port of Surinam
  Paramaribo.
  

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• noun capital of Swaziland; located in northwestern Swaziland
  Mbabane.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic
  Stockholm.
  
  • the Nobel Prize is awarded in Stockholm

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• noun the capital of Switzerland; located in western Switzerland
  Bern; Berne.
  

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• noun an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus
  Damascus; Dimash.
  

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• noun the capital of Nationalist China; located in northern Taiwan
  Taipei; Taipeh.
  

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• noun the capital of Tajikistan; formerly Stalinabad 1926-1991
  Dushanbe; Stalinabad; Dusanbe; Dyushambe.
  

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• noun the capital and largest port city of Tanzania on the Indian Ocean
  Dar es Salaam.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Tennessee; located in the north central part of the state on the Cumberland River; known for country music
  Nashville.
  

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• noun state capital of Texas on the Colorado River; site of the University of Texas
  Austin.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city and chief port of Thailand; a leading city in southeastern Asia; noted for Buddhist architecture
  Bangkok; Krung Thep.
  

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• noun the capital of the Bahamas
  Nassau.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic
  Santo Domingo; Ciudad Trujillo.
  
  • Santo Domingo is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the Americas with the oldest cathedral and the oldest hospital and the oldest monastery in the Western Hemisphere

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• noun an industrial center and the nominal capital of the Netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum
  Amsterdam; capital of The Netherlands.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of the Philippines; located on southern Luzon
  Manila.
  

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• noun a city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation
  Moscow; capital of the Russian Federation.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center
  Kyyiv; Kiev.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
  Greater London; British capital; London.
  

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• noun the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791
  Washington D.C.; Washington; American capital.
  

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• noun the sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers
  Lhasa; Lassa; Forbidden City.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Togo; located in the south on the Gulf of Guinea
  Lome.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Trinidad and Tobago on the west coast of the island of Trinidad
  Port-of-Spain; Port of Spain.
  

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• noun the capital and principal port of Tunisia
  Tunis.
  

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• noun the capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats
  Ankara; Angora; capital of Turkey.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan
  Ashkhabad.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria
  Kampala.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Uruguay; a cosmopolitan city and one of the busiest ports in South America
  Montevideo.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Utah; located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah; world capital of the Mormon Church
  Salt Lake City.
  

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• noun the capital of Uzbekistan
  Taskent; Tashkent.
  

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• noun capital of Vanuatu
  Vila; Port Vila.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Venezuela
  Caracas.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Vermont; located in north central Vermont
  Montpelier.
  

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• noun the capital city of Vietnam; located in North Vietnam
  Hanoi.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Virginia located in the east central part of the state; was capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
  Richmond.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound
  Olympia.
  

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• noun state capital of West Virginia in the central part of the state on the Kanawha river
  Charleston.
  

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• noun the capital of Western Samoa
  Apia.
  

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• noun capital of the state of Wisconsin; located in the southern part of state; site of the main branch of the University of Wisconsin
  Madison.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state
  Cheyenne.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Zambia
  Lusaka.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe
  Salisbury; Harare.
  

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• noun a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate
  

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• noun putting a condemned person to death
  executing; execution; death penalty.
  

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• noun a warship of the first rank in size and armament
  

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• noun the maximum number of shares authorized under the terms of a corporation's articles of incorporation
  authorized stock; authorized shares.
  
• noun the book value of the outstanding shares of a corporation
  

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• money, property, or stock invested in any business, or the enterprise of any corporation or institution. Abbott.

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• noun the opportunity cost of the funds employed as the result of an investment decision; the rate of return that a business could earn if it chose another investment with equivalent risk
  capital cost.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Cuba; located in western Cuba; one of the oldest cities in the Americas
  capital of Cuba; Havana.
  

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• .(Arch.) A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature. (b) A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces.

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• noun the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic in the western part of the country; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th century
  Prague; Praha; Prag.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Denmark; located on the island of Zealand
  Copenhagen; Kobenhavn.
  
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• noun an industrial center and the nominal capital of the Netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum
  Amsterdam; capital of The Netherlands.
  

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• noun the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs
  capital of Egypt; Cairo; El Qahira; Al Qahira.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center
  Helsingfors; capital of Finland; Helsinki.
  

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• . See the Note under Capital, n., 4.

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• noun the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
  Paris; capital of France; City of Light.
  

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• noun capital of Germany located in eastern Germany
  Berlin.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)
  Athinai; Athens; capital of Greece.
  
  • in the 5th century BC ancient Athens was the world's most powerful and civilized city

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• noun the capital and largest city of Haiti
  Port-au-Prince.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Hawaii; located on a large bay on the island of Oahu
  capital of Hawaii; Honolulu.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Honduras
  Tegucigalpa.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Hungary; located on the Danube River in north-central Hungary
  capital of Hungary; Budapest.
  

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• noun the capital of India is a division of the old city of Delhi
  capital of India; New Delhi.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Iran; located in northern Iran
  Teheran; Tehran; capital of Iran.
  

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• noun capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic
  Dublin; capital of Ireland.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
  capital of Italy; Rome; Eternal City; Roma.
  

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• noun capital and largest city of Jamaica
  capital of Jamaica; Kingston.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan
  Yeddo; Yedo; Tokyo; Edo; Tokio; capital of Japan.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Laos
  Vientiane; capital of Laos.
  

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• noun the capital and chief port and largest city of Liberia
  Monrovia; capital of Liberia.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Mexico is a political and cultural and commercial and industrial center; one of the world's largest cities
  Mexico City; capital of Mexico; Ciudad de Mexico.
  

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• noun the capital city of a nation
  

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• . (Arch.) See Gorgerin.

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• noun the capital and largest city of Nicaragua
  Managua; capital of Nicaragua.
  

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• noun capital of Nigeria in the center of the country
  Abuja; capital of Nigeria.
  

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• noun capital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvements
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of Panama
  Panama City; capital of Panama.
  

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• noun the capital city of a province
  

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• noun (corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid
  ROI; return on investment.
  

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• noun wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises
  risk capital.
  

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• noun a city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation
  Moscow; capital of the Russian Federation.
  

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• noun the capital and largest city of El Salvador; has suffered from recurrent earthquakes
  San Salvador.
  

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• noun a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters
  small cap.
  

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• (Print.), a small capital letter. See under Capital, a.

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• have the form of capital letters and height of the body of the lower-case letters.

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• noun the capital and largest city situated centrally in Spain; home of an outstanding art museum
  Madrid; capital of Spain.
  

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• noun the capital city of a political subdivision of a country
  

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• to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.

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• noun the capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats
  Ankara; Angora; capital of Turkey.
  

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• noun a sheikhdom of eastern Arabia and capital of the United Arab Emirates
  Abu Dhabi.
  

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• noun wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises
  risk capital.
  

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• noun assets available for use in the production of further assets
  capital.
  

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