2. (noun)principal, school principal, head teacher, head the educator who has executiveauthority for a school "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal"
4. (noun)principal, corpus, principal sum capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
5. (noun)principal (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
6. (adj)principal, dealer the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
7. (adj)chief(a), main(a), primary(a), principal(a), master(a) most important element "the chief aim of living"; "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"
1. (adjective)principal most important; = main her principal reasons for leaving
2. (noun)principal the head of a school He was sent to the principal's office.
Definition of 'Principal'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)Principal 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
2. (adj)Principal of or pertaining to a prince; princely
3. (noun)Principal 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
4. (noun)Principal the chiefactor in a crime, or an abettor who is present at it, -- as distinguished from an accessory
5. (noun)Principal a chief obligor, promisor, or debtor, -- as distinguished from a surety
6. (noun)Principal one who employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent
7. (noun)Principal a thing of chief or prime importance; something fundamental or especially conspicuous
8. (noun)Principal 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
9. (noun)Principal 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
10. (noun)Principal 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
Definitions of Principal 
Afrikaans: hoof
Arabic: رَئيسي
Bulgarian: главен
Brazilian: principal
Czech: hlavní
German: hauptsächlich
Danish: vigtig; hoved-
Greek: κυριότερος
Spanish: principal
Estonian: tähtsaim
Farsi: اصلی
Finnish: pääasiallinen
French: principal
Hebrew: עִיקָרִי
Hindi: मुख्य, प्रधान, प्रमुख, मू
Hungarian: fő
Indonesian: terpenting
Icelandic: megin-
Italian: principale
Japanese: 主要な
Korean: 주요한
Lithuanian: pagrindinis, svarbiausias
Latvian: galvenais; svarīgākais
Malay: utama
Dutch: voornaamste
Norwegian: hoved-, viktigst
Polish: główny
Persian: اصلی
Pashto: اصلى
Portuguese: principal
Romanian: principal
Russian: главный
Slovak: hlavný
Slovenian: glaven
Serbian: glavni
Swedish: huvudsaklig, viktigast
Thai: สำคัญมากกว่าอย่างอื่น
Turkish: temel
Taiwanese: 最重要的
Ukrainian: головний, основний
Urdu: اول، اعلي
Vietnamese: chính
Chinese: 最重要的
