WordNet
n. the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles l'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791 [syn: Washington, Washington D.C., American capital]
Usage examples of "capital of the united states".
He wondered if the invaders from another world had figured out it was the capital of the United States.
If anything, he was even more highly regarded by the rapidly growing population of Magdeburg, the new capital of the United States of Europe rising out of the ruins on the Elbe.
On the other hand, oil was bringing people and prosperity to Houston, and every indicator-especially its strategic location at the confluence of supply and distribution-pointed to its emergence as the oil capital of the United States, perhaps of the world.