capitals
SayKAP-i-tuhlz/ˈkæpɪtəlz/
- 1Plural of capital.
The map labeled all the European capitals in bold type.
Several state capitals sit far from their largest cities.
Note
A regular -s plural that only some meanings of the noun can take. Cities and letters are counted, so they pluralize freely: state capitals, the fashion capitals of the world, a headline set in capitals. Money, productive goods and investors as a class are treated as mass nouns and normally stay singular. When you meet this form, it almost always means cities or letters, not wealth.
capitals is a form of capital
capital, noun: The city where the government of a country, state, or region is officially based. Full entry
- Forms
- capitalcapitals plural
- Spelling
- capital → capitals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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