principal

Significat

Adj

1. Primary; most important; first level in importance.
2. (obsolete) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
3. Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.

Noun

1. The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
2. The chief administrator of a school.
3. The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
4. A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
5. The primary participant in a crime.
6. Either party in a duel.
7. A partner or owner of a business.
8. A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
9. The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
10. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
11. One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
12. (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
13. A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
14. A security principal.
15. A main character or lead actor.

Amb guionet com

prin‧ci‧pal

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈpɹɪnsɪpəl/

Etimologia

From Middle English principal, from Old French principal, from Latin prīncipālis.

Sents

The principal occupation , however , was farming .