the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

    column     pillar

    top

a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

    book

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

small capital / small cap - a character having the form of an upper-case letter but the same height as lower-case letters

    character     grapheme     graphic symbol

    small letter     lower case     lower-case letter     minuscule

a seat of government

Camelot - (Arthurian legend) the capital of King Arthur''s kingdom
national capital - the capital city of a nation
provincial capital - the capital city of a province
state capital - the capital city of a political subdivision of a country
George Town - the capital of the Cayman Islands
Bridgetown / capital of Barbados - capital of Barbados
Bratislava / capital of Slovakia / Pressburg / Pozsony - capital and largest city of Slovakia
Sucre - the legal capital and seat of the judiciary in Bolivia
Belfast / capital of Northern Ireland - capital and largest city of Northern Ireland
Edinburgh - the capital of Scotland
Cardiff - the capital and largest city of Wales
Minsk / capital of Belarus - the capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Tallinn / Tallin / capital of Estonia - a port city on the Gulf of Finland that is the capital and largest city of Estonia
Riga / capital of Latvia - a port city on the Gulf of Riga that is the capital and largest city of Latvia
Vilnius / Vilna / Vilno / Wilno / capital of Lithuania - the capital and largest city of Lithuania
Kishinev / Chisinau / capital of Moldova - the capital of Moldova
Kyyiv / Kiev / capital of the Ukraine - capital and largest city of the Ukraine
Yerevan / Jerevan / Erivan / capital of Armenia - capital of Armenia
Baku / capital of Azerbaijan - a port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production
Tbilisi / Tiflis / capital of Georgia - the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river
Astana / Akmola / capital of Kazakhstan - remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998
Bishkek / Biskek / Frunze / capital of Kyrgyzstan - the capital of Kyrgyzstan (known as Frunze 1926-1991)
Dushanbe / Dusanbe / Dyushambe / Stalinabad / capital of Tajikistan - the capital of Tajikistan
Ashkhabad / capital of Turkmenistan - the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan
Tashkent / Taskent / capital of Uzbek - the capital of Uzbekistan

    seat

wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

endowment / endowment fund - the capital that provides income for an institution
means / substance - considerable capital (wealth or income)
principal / corpus / principal sum - capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

    assets

assets available for use in the production of further assets

stock - the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
venture capital / risk capital - wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises
operating capital - capital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvements
seed money - capital needed to set up a new business or enterprise

    assets

uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script"

    uppercase

of primary important; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat"

    primary

punishable by death; "a capital offense"

    serious

first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea"

    superior