ALL meanings of principal
prin·ci·pal
P p - adjective principal foremost, in front 1
- adjective principal chief 1
- noun principal school director 1
- noun principal finance: capital sum 1
- adjective principal finance: of capital 1
- adjective principal theatre: leading role 1
- noun principal music: first chair 1
- noun principal law: one authorizing 1
- noun principal law: perpetrator, abettor 1
- adjective principal first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost. 1
- adjective principal of, of the nature of, or constituting principal or capital: a principal investment. 1
- adjective principal Geometry. (of an axis of a conic) passing through the foci. 1
- noun principal a chief or head. 1
- noun principal the head or director of a school or, especially in England, a college. 1
- noun principal a person who takes a leading part in any activity, as a play; chief actor or doer. 1
- noun principal the first player of a division of instruments in an orchestra (excepting the leader of the first violins). 1
- noun principal something of principal or chief importance. 1
- noun principal Law. a person who authorizes another, as an agent, to represent him or her. a person directly responsible for a crime, either as an actual perpetrator or as an abettor present at its commission. Compare accessory (def 3). 1
- noun principal a person primarily liable for an obligation, in contrast with an endorser, or the like. 1
- noun principal the main body of an estate, or the like, as distinguished from income. 1
- noun principal Finance. a capital sum, as distinguished from interest or profit. 1
- noun principal Music. an organ stop. the subject of a fugue. 1
- noun principal (in a framed structure) a member, as a truss, upon which adjacent or similar members depend for support or reinforcement. 1
- noun principal each of the combatants in a duel, as distinguished from the seconds. 1
- adjective principal Principal means first in order of importance. 0
- countable noun principal The principal of a school, or in Britain the principal of a college, is the person in charge of the school or college. 0
- adjective principal first in importance, rank, value, etc; chief 0
- adjective principal denoting or relating to capital or property as opposed to interest, etc 0
- noun principal a person who is first in importance or directs some event, action, organization, etc 0
- noun principal (in Britain) a civil servant of an executive grade who is in charge of a section 0
- noun principal a person who engages another to act as his agent 0
- noun principal an active participant in a crime 0
- noun principal the person primarily liable to fulfil an obligation 0
- noun principal the head of a school or other educational institution 0
- noun principal (in Scottish schools) a head of department 0
- noun principal capital or property, as contrasted with the income derived from it 0
- noun principal the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated 0
- noun principal a main roof truss or rafter 0
- noun principal the chief instrumentalist in a section of the orchestra 0
- noun principal one of the singers in an opera company 0
- noun principal either of two types of open diapason organ stops, one of four-foot length and pitch and the other of eight-foot length and pitch 0
- noun principal the leading performer in a play 0
- adjective principal first in rank, authority, importance, degree, etc. 0
- adjective principal that is or has to do with principal (sense 5) 0
- noun principal a principal person or thing 0
- noun principal a chief; head 0
- noun principal a governing or presiding officer, specif. of a school 0
- noun principal a main actor or performer 0
- noun principal either of the combatants in a duel 0
- noun principal any of the main end rafters of a roof, supporting the purlins 0