Do you know the capitol of your country?
Wait, Is it capitol or capital?
These homophones are difficult to distinguish. But vocabeasy has tricks that make these words easy to recognize.
Capital can be a noun or an adjective.
As a noun, it means the most important city of a country from where the central government works.
It also means a large amount of money, wealth or property.
Capital letter means uppercase in the form A,B,C,etc. (Lowercase is a,b,c,etc.)
As an adjective, a crime or offence is regarded as capital crime or offence. A capital crime is so serious that only death is a possible punishment.
Capitol means a building or group of buildings in which the government meets.
Wait, Is it capitol or capital?
These homophones are difficult to distinguish. But vocabeasy has tricks that make these words easy to recognize.
Quick Look
What is the difference between Capital and Capitol?Capital can be a noun or an adjective.
As a noun, it means the most important city of a country from where the central government works.
It also means a large amount of money, wealth or property.
Capital letter means uppercase in the form A,B,C,etc. (Lowercase is a,b,c,etc.)
As an adjective, a crime or offence is regarded as capital crime or offence. A capital crime is so serious that only death is a possible punishment.
- Rape is a capital crime.
- Disrespecting the King is a capital offence.
- She gave me a capital idea. (excellent idea)
Capitol means a building or group of buildings in which the government meets.
What is the meaning of Capital?
Capital is used as a noun and an adjective. It has many meanings.Capital when refers to a city it means the city that is the seat of center government or state government of country.
- Delhi is the capital of India.
- Write your parents' name in capital letter.
- The company has put a lot of capital into the project.
- Chinese capital concern is to defeat Corona.
When the word capital is used before the word "offence or crime", like the capital offence or crime, the crime becomes so serious that the person who commits it can be punished by death.
- Rapping is the capital crime in India.
What is the meaning of Capitol?
Capitol has only one meaning that is building or house. It means a building or group or building in which the government meets to make laws.The home of the U.S. Congress is known as The Capitol.
Important Points
The Capitol is always capitalized when it refers to the home of the U.S. Congress.The United States Capitol, the home of the United States Congress.
Excellent, splendid are the archaic and old-fashioned meanings of the word capital. Instead of capital one can use excellent, splendid or any other synonyms.
- He had capital skill of building capitol. (excellent skill)
Mind Trick- How to memorize the words.
We can easily memorize the word capitol with the help of "o". As we have known that capitol means building that has a dome like shape over it.
Capital has many meanings, but capitol has only one meaning. Capitol and one both have "o"; common "o" helps us to learn that capitol(with o) has one meaning.
All other meanings save building goes with capital.
Origins:
Capitol origins from the Capitolium, the name of a specific Roman temple.Capital origins from the Latin word caput meaing head.
What is Capitol Hill?
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary:
" The U.S. Congress is call Capitol Hill because that is the name of the area in Washington, D.C., where the Capitol building is locate. "
In a nutshell
Capital is used for many things--cities, money, letters.
Capitol is used for only one thing, i.e, building.
Test on real-world sentence examples
A story in Chinese state media last Thursday, for example, claimed there was only one new case of coronavirus in the..........city, Beijing.
[1] capital[2] capitol
The shorter-dated loan, however, is also better for banks as longer-term ........ is more expensive, especially for those institutions that borrow overnight to fund themselves.
[1] capital
[2] capitol
The expectation is that thousands of new cases will emerge this week as the ........... hits the peak of the virus.
[1] capital[2] capitol
Young and four other teens were charged with ......... murder and booked into jail without bond.
[1] capital[2] capitol
At the .........., where visitors are now banned, cavernous stairways once filled with hundreds of protesters making clamorous demands of lawmakers now echo with the footsteps of sparse staffers.
[1] Capital[2] Capitol
Justice is scheduled to hold a news briefing at the state ........ on Monday.
[1] Capital[2] Capitol
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