principal

Meaning

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

chief

main

capital

primary

major

head

headmaster

leading

important

master

director

best

central

prime

leader

first

basic

essential

boss

prominent

highest

manager

foremost

cardinal

fundamental

corpus

principal sum

capital sum

supreme

most important

commander

ruler

ringleader

asset

staple

pre-eminent

dealer

head teacher

school principal

lead

star

original

senior

greatest

momentous

superior

chief instigator

culprit

head a conspiracy

important one

most excellent

fund

actual

close

initial

near

real

ultimate

headman

employer

client

senior vice president

schoolmaster

administrator

commanding

guiding

absolute

final

headmistress

headteacher

school head

fashionable

head-master

cost

property

resources

venture capital

educationist

educator

instructor

pedagogue

overseer

prince

premier

substance

uppermost

exalted

superintendent

constituent

grand

home

magistral

primal

paramount

particular one

authoritative

big

deep

difficult

grave

great

high

large

profound

responsible

serious

weighty

wise

instigator

Pendragon

captain

chieftain

perpetrator

conductor

curator

dean

executive

intendant

wielder

assignor

chapter

stock

Mister

don

esquire

gentleman

liege

lord

monsieur

monsignor

seignior

senor

signior

signor

sir

contracting

key

roof truss

topmost

most

predominant

salient

constructor

owner

rector

in principle

genteel

president

prexy

provost

conspicuous

significant

mandator

actor

agent

artificer

creator

doer

generator

maker

originator

raiser

all

complete

general

overall

total

pedascule

Hyphenated as

prin‧ci‧pal

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹɪnsɪpəl/

Etymology

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

Sentences

The principal occupation , however , was farming .