All 12 Uses of
capital
in
The Brothers Karamazov
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Though Fyodor Pavlovitch was a drunkard and a vicious debauchee he never neglected investing his capital, and managed his business affairs very successfully, though, no doubt, not over-scrupulously.†
Chpt 1
- "It would be a capital thing if he didn't turn up.†
Chpt 2
- At the time I arrived and joined the battalion, all the town was talking of the expected return of the colonel's second daughter, a great beauty, who had just left a fashionable school in the capital.†
Chpt 3
- It's capital coffee: Smerdyakov's making.†
Chpt 3
- He makes capital fish pasties too.†
Chpt 3
- It's a gloomy, cold, foggy autumn day, a capital day for hunting.†
Chpt 5
- He helped Grushenka with his advice to increase her capital and put business in her way.†
Chpt 7
- Capital!†
Chpt 8 *
- Capital!†
Chpt 8
- "That's capital!" exclaimed Grushenka relentlessly.†
Chpt 8
- Tell me, we have no capital punishment, have we?†
Chpt 9
- "Why, after your parent's death there was at least forty thousand to come to each of you, and very likely more, but if Fyodor Pavlovitch got married then to that lady, Agrafena Alexandrovna, she would have had all his capital made over to her directly after the wedding, for she's plenty of sense, so that your parent would not have left you two roubles between the three of you.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Capital has many other senses including an uppercase letter (such as B in contrast to b); and anything that is more important than other similar things -- especially a city from which a nation is governed. Capital is often confused with capitol which is the building (or buildings) from which a nation is governed. See a comprehensive dictionary for other senses of capital.