capitol

noun

1. (US)Any building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.

   “The state capitol is located smack-dab in the middle of the state's capital.”

   “The centre of attraction was the City Hall. Two thousand flags and more ...; 2,000 electric lights... combined to make the civic capitol gorgeous... .”

2. (historical)Any citadel or complex of buildings similar to the Roman Capitol, particularly Italian and Roman citadels including temples to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
3. (alt-of, alternative, historical)Alternative form of capitoul (“the former chief magistrates of Toulouse, France”).

name

1. (historical)Any particular capitol
2. Any particular capitol
3. Any particular capitol

   “ON January 20, 1953, I stood on a platform at the East Front of the Capitol in Washington to take the oath, administered by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, as the thirty-fourth President of the United States — an office I was to hold for eight years.”

4. (US)Any particular capitol