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Definitions for Principal

[1] first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
[2] of, of the nature of, or constituting principal or capital: a principal investment.
[3] Geometry . (of an axis of a conic) passing through the foci.
[4] a chief or head.
[5] the head or director of a school or, especially in England, a college.
[6] a person who takes a leading part in any activity, as a play; chief actor or doer.
[7] the first player of a division of instruments in an orchestra (excepting the leader of the first violins).
[8] something of principal or chief importance.
[9] 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) .
[10] a person primarily liable for an obligation, in contrast with an endorser, or the like.
[11] the main body of an estate, or the like, as distinguished from income.
[12] Finance . a capital sum, as distinguished from interest or profit.
[13] Music . an organ stop. the subject of a fugue.
[14] (in a framed structure) a member, as a truss, upon which adjacent or similar members depend for support or reinforcement.
[15] each of the combatants in a duel, as distinguished from the seconds.
[16] first in importance, rank, value, etc; chief
[17] denoting or relating to capital or property as opposed to interest, etc
[18] a person who is first in importance or directs some event, action, organization, etc
[19] (in Britain) a civil servant of an executive grade who is in charge of a section
[20] law a person who engages another to act as his agent an active participant in a crime the person primarily liable to fulfil an obligation
[21] the head of a school or other educational institution
[22] (in Scottish schools) a head of department
[23] finance capital or property, as contrasted with the income derived from it the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
[24] a main roof truss or rafter
[25] music the chief instrumentalist in a section of the orchestra one of the singers in an opera company 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
[26] the leading performer in a play

Words related to Principal

prime, major, dominant, preeminent, outstanding, leading, primary, key, paramount, main, predominant, prominent, administrator, dean, boss, director, chief, superintendent, superior, head

Words nearby Principal

princess post, princess regent, princess royal, princess tree, princeton, principal, principal argument, principal artery of thumb, principal axis, principal boy, principal clause

Origin of Principal

1250–1300; Middle English < Latin prīncipālis first, chief, equivalent to prīncip- (see prince) + -ālis -al1

Words that may be confused with Principal

principal, principle, (see, usage, note, at, the, current, entry)

Other words from Principal

prin·ci·pal·ship , noun
un·der·prin·ci·pal , noun

Word origin for Principal

C13: via Old French from Latin principālis chief, from princeps chief man, prince

Synonyms for Principal

dominant, key, leading, main, major, outstanding, paramount, predominant, preeminent, primary, prime, prominent, arch, capital, cardinal, champion, chief, essential, first, head, maximum, premier, sovereign, star, superior, controlling, crowning, foremost, greatest, highest, incomparable, mainline, matchless, peerless, prevailing, second-to-none, stellar, strongest, supereminent, supreme, transcendent, unapproachable, unequaled, unparalleled, unrivaled