capital vs endowment

endowment vs capital

capital and endowment both are nouns.

capital is an adjective but endowment is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
capital	Yes	Yes	No	No
endowment	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, endowment is a hyponym of capital; that is, endowment is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than capital:

capital: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
endowment: the capital that provides income for an institution

Other hyponyms of capital include endowment fund, means, substance, corpus, principal, principal sum.

capital (noun)	endowment (noun)
the upper part of a column that supports the entablature	the act of endowing with a permanent source of income
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis	natural abilities or qualities
a seat of government	the capital that provides income for an institution
a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
assets available for use in the production of further assets

capital (adjective)	endowment (adjective)
of principal importance
first-rate
uppercase

Difference between capital and endowment

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