capital vs venture capital

venture capital vs capital

capital and venture capital both are nouns.

capital is an adjective but venture capital is not an adjective.

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

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

capital: assets available for use in the production of further assets
venture capital: wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises

Other hyponyms of capital include stock, risk capital, operating capital, seed money, active capital, borrowed capital.

capital (noun)	venture capital (noun)
the upper part of a column that supports the entablature	wealth available for investment in new or speculative enterprises
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)	venture capital (adjective)
of principal importance
first-rate
uppercase

Difference between capital and venture capital

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