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

négociant

patron

plomb

principe

star

⭐

tête

dominant

recteur

entité de sécurité

auteur principal

chef d’établissement scolaire

chef d’établissement

directeur d’établissement

maîtresse d'ouvrage

proviseure

auteur

proviseur adjoint

cardinal

chef

commettant

corpus

directrice

étoile

⭐

maîtresse

Synonymes

chief

main

capital

primary

major

head

headmaster

leading

important

master

director

best

leader

central

first

1st

prime

basic

prominent

boss

essential

foremost

manager

highest

cardinal

corpus

fundamental

capital sum

principal sum

commander

pre-eminent

asset

ringleader

ruler

lead

staple

star

⭐

supreme

head teacher

school principal

most important

original

dealer

schoolmaster

real

momentous

employer

culprit

initial

important one

most excellent

actual

greatest

senior vice president

chief instigator

headman

client

near

close

administrator

superior

head a conspiracy

fund

senior

ultimate

pedagogue

perpetrator

predominant

premier

president

prexy

primal

prince

🤴

profound

property

provost

raiser

rector

resources

responsible

salient

seignior

senor

serious

significant

signor

sir

stock

substance

superintendent

topmost

total

uppermost

venture capital

weighty

wielder

wise

headteacher

Mister

signior

Pendragon

school head

roof truss

particular one

pedascule

all

headmaster

absolute

actor

agent

artificer

assignor

authoritative

big

captain

chapter

chieftain

commanding

complete

conductor

conspicuous

constituent

constructor

contracting

cost

creator

curator

dean

deep

difficult

doer

don

educationist

educator

esquire

exalted

executive

fashionable

final

general

generator

genteel

gentleman

🤵‍♂️

grand

grave

🪦

great

guiding

head-master

headmistress

high

home

🏠

in principle

instigator

instructor

intendant

key

🔑

large

liege

lord

magistral

maker

mandator

monsieur

monsignor

most

originator

overall

overseer

owner

paramount

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.