Synonyms for capitol


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kap-i-tl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæp ɪ tl


Définition of capitol

Origin :
  • "building where U.S. Congress meets," 1793 (in writings of Thomas Jefferson), from Latin Capitolium, temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill in ancient Rome. Used earlier of Virginia state houses (1699). Its use in American public architecture deliberately evokes Roman republican imagery. With reference to the Roman citadel, it is recorded in English from late 14c., via Old North French capitolie. Relationship of Capitoline to capital is likely but not certain.
  • noun building or buildings housing chief governmental offices
Example sentences :
  • The address to the crowd at the Capitol was broadcast on a loudspeaker.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Let us give this capitol back to the people to whom it belongs.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • There's the Capitol ahead of us, and some of our troops are going into it.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • I could not camp in the Capitol Square, even if I had wished so to do.
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
  • He had his own ship on a line with the Capitol in a matter of seconds.
  • Extract from : « The Hammer of Thor » by Charles Willard Diffin
  • Congress had voted money for mural paintings for the rotunda of the Capitol.
  • Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson
  • Doctor, that bullet struck the Capitol only two inches from a window.
  • Extract from : « The Solar Magnet » by Sterner St. Paul Meek
  • I remember his saying that the Senate Chamber at the Capitol was extremely draughty.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • The portrait of him in the capitol is said not to be a correct likeness.
  • Extract from : « The Emigrant » by Frederick William Thomas
  • The streets leading to the Capitol were packed with vast throngs.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) » by Various

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