capitol
IPA: kˈæpɪtʌɫ
noun
- (US) Any building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.
- (historical) Any citadel or complex of buildings similar to the Roman Capitol, particularly Italian and Roman citadels including temples to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
- Any particular capitol
- (historical) The citadel and temples on the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome.
- The town hall of Toulouse, France.
- The building in Washington, D.C., in which both houses of the Congress of the United States meet.
- (US, with context or qualifier) The chief building in any state capital in which the state legislature meets.
- (historical) Alternative form of capitoul, the former chief magistrates of Toulouse, France. [(historical) The former chief magistrates of the city of Toulouse, France.]
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Examples of "capitol" in Sentences
- Capitol changed the name of the band.
- The capitol is where the government is.
- In the early 1990s the music capitol of the world.
- The statue was mounted in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.
- The terminal quickly became the portal to the Capitol.
- Her oracular responses the Senate transferred into the capitol.
- The city became the capitol of the so called General Government.
- The seat of government of the Free Philippines then was the Capitol.
- The Architect of the Capitol has the authority to enforce this provision.
- The Pampanga Capitol is the seat of government of the Province of Pampanga.