principal
Meanings
adj
- Primary; most important; first level in importance.
- Of or relating to a prince; princely.
- Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
noun
- The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
- The chief administrator of a school.
- The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
- 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.
- The primary participant in a crime.
- Either party in a duel.
- A partner or owner of a business.
- A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.
- 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.
- The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
- One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
- An essential point or rule; a principle.
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Etymology
From Middle English principal, from Old French principal, from Latin prīncipālis.
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