I. ˈ ̷ ̷( ̷ ̷) ̷ ̷_lə̇st, Brit also kəˈpit ə l- noun
( -s )
Etymology: French, Dutch, or German; French capitaliste from Dutch or German; Dutch kapitalist, from German, from kapital capital + -ist
: a person who has capital especially invested or to be invested in business
spare money is called capital; its owner is called a capitalist — G.B.Shaw
broadly : a person of wealth : plutocrat
II. adjective
1. : owning capital
the capitalist class
2.
a. : practicing capitalism : adhering to or defending capitalism
capitalist nations
b. : marked by capitalism
the modern capitalist period of history from 1815 to 1914 — Norman Thomas