Principal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRINCIPAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the head of a college or university
• the most important or senior person in an organization or group
• the head of a school, college, or other educational institution
• the leading performer in a concert, play, ballet, or opera
• the leading player in each section of an orchestra
• (in certain professions) a fully qualified practitioner
• (in the UK) a senior civil servant in charge of a particular section.
• a sum of money lent or invested, on which interest is paid
• a person for whom another acts as an agent or representative
• the person directly responsible for a crime.
• each of the combatants in a duel.
• a main rafter supporting purlins.
• an organ stop sounding a main register of open flue pipes typically an octave above the diapason
• A leader, chief, or head; one who takes the lead; one who acts independently, or who has controlling authority or influence; as, the principal of a faction, a school, a firm, etc.; -- distinguished from a subordinate, abettor, auxiliary, or assistant.
• The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory.
• A chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety.
• One who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent.
• A thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous.
• A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; -- so called in distinction from interest or profit.
• The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof, -- generally a truss of timber or iron, but there are roofs with stone principals. Also, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
• In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason.
• A heirloom; a mortuary.
• The first two long feathers of a hawk\'s wing.
• One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
• A principal or essential point or rule; a principle.
• the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
• the educator who has executive authority for a school
• an actor who plays a principal role
• capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
• (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
• the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
• head of a school or college
ADJECTIVE:
• chief
• first in order of importance; main
• denoting an original sum invested or lent
• main, most important
• Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.
• Of or pertaining to a prince; princely.
• most important element
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• most important, consequential, or influential; chief

Words related to PRINCIPAL

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How to use PRINCIPAL in a sentence

• JAMES MARTIN MILLER FORMER UNITED STATES CONSUL IN FRANCE To have lived on the principal battle ground of the world war was a privilege the author did not appreciate at the time.
• It is one of the principal cities in all Persia, and its Saracen inhabitants allege that no Christian can live there above a year.
• Leahy, a minister in the Protestant Methodist Church, after visiting several of the principal cities of the Union, came to Milwaukee.
• He then added, by way of explanation, to prove the greater extent of the slaughter, that none but knights, and of these the principal only, wore that ornament.
• Every three years, a fresh bond is drawn up including principal and interest.
• The attitude of Sir Christopher was commanding, and he engrossed the principal part of the conversation.
• In war the safety of the sovereign was the first thought, and the principal care of all.
• His disinterested advice has enabled me largely to increase my income, without placing a farthing of the principal in jeopardy.
• The Work is edited by three of the principal Contributors.
• The principal villages of the Orange Free State were almost more English than Dutch.
• His principal aim, of course, will be that she will not worry or have cause to worry.
• A list of the names of the principal inhabitants of the town to-day would contain the names of a large number of the principal inhabitants of any generation since its foundation.
• Kossuth visited fifteen of the principal cities and towns of the State and in each of them he delivered one address or more.
• The Surma is the chief river, and its principal tributaries from the north are the Jiri and Jatinga, and from the south the Sonai and Daleswari.
• Elsewhere the face of a rock has been prolonged by a wall carried out to continue it, as in the front wall of the principal kiva apartment.
• I gathered the principal facts of his life at the Capitol, stated them to Dr.
• There is not a vestige of doubt that hatred of them was one of the principal causes of the insurrection against Spain.
• They regulate all legal relations of their citizens, the laws of husband and wife, principal and agent, and of contract.
• Cooloo Inga, and Mavoonda, the principal villages, were separated by wide intervals, which placed the travellers under the necessity of often sleeping in the open air.
• Just as the principal was putting the last of the coins into his satchel Mr.
• They have made the secondary the principal at the wrong moment, and the principal they have at the wrong moment treated as secondary.
• And thus ends the second section of the second principal part of the Song according to its Literal meaning.
• Aside from this being one of the principal seats of learning in the world, it is distinguished alike for its religious and political changes in times past.
• From the latter one enters the principal gallery, ninety-six by twenty-four, devoted to sculpture, and opening on the east into the picture-gallery.

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