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capitall

capitall is the obsolete spelling of capital.

Meaning of capital

Adjective

capital (not comparable)

  1. Of prime importance.
    • a capital article in religion1708, Francis Atterbury, Fourteen Sermons Preach'd on Several Occasions, Preface
  2. Chief (in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation).
    • London and Paris are capital cities.
  3. (UK, comparable, dated, not comparable) Excellent.
    • a capital fellow
  4. (crime) Punishable by, or involving punishment by, death.
    • capital punishment; capital murder
  5. Uppercase.
    • One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
    Antonyms:
    lower-case
    1. Used to emphasise greatness or absoluteness.
      • You're a genius with a capital G!

See all 19 meanings of capital

Questions about capitall

What is capitall the obsolete spelling of?
Capitall is the obsolete spelling of capital.

Words near capitall in the dictionary

  1. capitalized
  2. capitalizer
  3. capitalizers
  4. capitalizes
  5. capitalizing
  6. capitall
  7. capitally
  8. capitalness
  9. capitals
  10. capitan
  11. Capitan China

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capitall (page history and authors); capital (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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