ˈkæ.pɪ.təl ˈkæ.pɪ.təl ɡɹeɪt ˈmædʒəskjuːl ˈmædʒəskjuːl uppercase capital A great A many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script of principal importance our capital concern was to avoid defeat first-rate a capital fellow a capital idea the upper part of a column that supports the entablature 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 seat of government a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product the crime capital of Italy the drug capital of Colombia wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value assets available for use in the production of further assets