principal

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

principal

essentiel

directeur

capital

proviseur

fondamental

majeur

important

cardinal

principe

chef d’établissement

chef d’établissement scolaire

directeur d’établissement

maîtresse

entité de sécurité

auteur principal

patron

dominant

maîtresse d'ouvrage

recteur

chef

négociant

tête

plomb

star

étoile

corpus

directrice

proviseure

proviseur adjoint

commettant

auteur

Coupé comme

prin‧ci‧pal

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈpɹɪnsɪpəl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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

Phrases

The principal occupation , however , was farming .

La principale occupation était cependant l'agriculture.