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Plural of capital

regular plural

The plural of capital is capitals.

Forms of capital

Singularcapital /ˈkæpɪtəl/
Pluralcapitals
Countablecountable and uncountable

Capitals in a sentence

  • Ladies of yesteryear toured world capitals in sedate linen dresses, but such priggish frumpery hardly presents Americans as the carefree, egalitarian, and sensuous people the viewers of dubbed Baywatch episodes have come to expect.2005, Sharon Grehan, Random Acts of Malice, page 56
  • State legislative races tend to come cheap, with low turnout and tiny margins despite how state capitals have taken on an ever larger role amid legislative stalemate in Washington, DC.2022 April 5, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Why these Democrats think 25 state legislative races are the key to securing the 2024 presidential...
  • Both the English and French governments established prime meridians in their capitals.From the entry prime
  • Complete the form in block capitals.From the entry block capitals
  • The newspaper letters, all capitals, made up a jumble of typefaces.2017, David Stout, A Child is Missing. From the entry jumble

Meaning of capital

  1. noun Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
  2. noun Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
  3. noun The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.

Full definition of capital

Questions about the plural of capital

What is the plural of capital?
The plural of capital is capitals.
Is capital countable?
Capital is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capital (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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