capital vs endowment fund

endowment fund vs capital

capital and endowment fund both are nouns.

capital is an adjective but endowment fund is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, endowment fund is a hyponym of capital; that is, endowment fund 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 fund: the capital that provides income for an institution

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

capital (noun)	endowment fund (noun)
the upper part of a column that supports the entablature	the capital that provides income for an institution
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
a seat of government
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 fund (adjective)
of principal importance
first-rate
uppercase

Difference between capital and endowment fund

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