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Principal   /prˈɪnsəpəl/   Listen
Principal

adjective
1.
Most important element.  Synonyms: chief, main, master, primary.  "The main doors were of solid glass" , "The principal rivers of America" , "The principal example" , "Policemen were primary targets" , "The master bedroom" , "A master switch"
noun
1.
The original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated.
2.
The educator who has executive authority for a school.  Synonyms: head, head teacher, school principal.
3.
An actor who plays a principal role.  Synonyms: lead, star.
4.
Capital as contrasted with the income derived from it.  Synonyms: corpus, principal sum.
5.
(criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement.
6.
The major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account.  Synonym: dealer.



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"Principal" Quotes from Famous Books



... and his boys were of course far away out on the plain, where they had been driving the buffalo, and therefore Dinny was the principal man in camp. ...
— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn
... I landed with some others to see what was to be seen, and to load, as we were taught to believe, a boat with wild fowl. The principal settlement having been pointed out, we landed on the slope of one of the islands, on which a coarse rank vegetation existed amongst the numerous relics of departed seals, sacrificed to the appetites of the Esquimaux and the trocking of the Governor, as he was facetiously styled. The said ...
— Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; • Sherard Osborn
... brown stone building on the corner of two of the principal streets in Chicago, Brenton and Speed ascended quickly to one of the top floors. It was nearly midnight, and two upper stories of the huge dark building were brilliantly lighted, as was shown on the outside by the long rows of glittering windows. They entered a ...
— From Whose Bourne • Robert Barr
... would tear them to shreds, sir, in five minutes; he would make out that they were our principal grounds—he is a skilled lawyer. If I may dare to say so, Master Cromwell, let your words against Mr. More be ...
— The King's Achievement • Robert Hugh Benson
... Donkin half smiled at the ignorance displayed. 'Why, hang him, to be sure; if the judge is in a hanging mood. He's been either a principal in the offence, or a principal in the second degree, and, as such, liable to the full punishment. I drew up the warrant myself this morning, though I left the exact name to be filled ...
— Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


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