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Capitol   /kˈæpɪtəl/   Listen
Capitol

noun
1.
A building occupied by a state legislature.
2.
The government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet.  Synonym: Capitol Building.



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"Capitol" Quotes from Famous Books



... Row—or anywhere but here!" Yet he felt sure that she had his own fondness for pleasure-grounds and points of view. She had doubtless anticipated the Masonic Temple and Washington Park, just as he had anticipated the Pincian and the Tower of the Capitol. His fellow-feeling forgave her this crudity; after all, she was praising ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... go through it some day soon," said Mrs. Littell. "And now we'll drive to the Capitol. Day after to-morrow would be a good time for you to take the girls to the ...
— Betty Gordon in Washington • Alice B. Emerson
... years; and Western men are getting clamorous about their right to the same privilege in turn. Capitalists of San Francisco offer to contribute five millions of dollars towards the erection of the western Capitol, besides building and fitting out a Presidential mansion in their city. This is handsome; and, since the central Capitol at St. Louis, now nearly finished, has involved the expenditure of about twelve millions, such liberality may be needful for the success of the project. One of the California ...
— 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century • Henry Hartshorne
... word I'd use," said I, with a laugh that wasn't of the kind that cheers. And I rang off and asked for the state capitol on the ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips
... silence were louder. Times he would pace the beach at night and overhead would be the roar of jets and rockets, the ships that had roared over New Albuquerque, his capitol, in those last days before he had fled. The crump of bombs and the screams and the blood, and the flat voices of ...
— Happy Ending • Fredric Brown


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