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principal
Overview of noun principal
The noun principal has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (12) principal -- (the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated)
2. (2) principal, school principal, head teacher, head -- (the educator who has executive authority for a school; "she sent unruly pupils to see the principal")
3. (1) star, principal, lead -- (an actor who plays a principal role)
4. principal, corpus, principal sum -- (capital as contrasted with the income derived from it)
5. principal, dealer -- (the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account)
Overview of adj principal
The adj principal has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (19) chief, main, primary, principal -- (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")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun principal
5 senses of principal
Sense 1
principal
=> debt
=> liabilities
=> possession
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
principal, school principal, head teacher, head
=> educator, pedagogue, pedagog
=> professional, professional person
=> adult, grownup
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
star, principal, lead
=> actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player
=> performer, performing artist
=> entertainer
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
principal, corpus, principal sum
=> capital
=> assets
=> possession
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
principal, dealer
=> financier, moneyman
=> capitalist
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun principal
3 of 5 senses of principal
Sense 2
principal, school principal, head teacher, head
=> chancellor
=> headmaster, schoolmaster, master
=> headmistress
Sense 3
star, principal, lead
=> co-star
=> film star, movie star
=> idol, matinee idol
=> television star, TV star
Sense 5
principal, dealer
=> broker-dealer
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun principal
5 senses of principal
Sense 1
principal
=> debt
Sense 2
principal, school principal, head teacher, head
=> educator, pedagogue, pedagog
Sense 3
star, principal, lead
=> actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player
Sense 4
principal, corpus, principal sum
=> capital
Sense 5
principal, dealer
=> financier, moneyman
Antonyms of noun principal
Member Holonyms of noun principal
Substance Holonyms of noun principal
Part Holonyms of noun principal
1 of 5 senses of principal
Sense 1
principal
PART OF: loan
Member Meronyms of noun principal
Substance Meronyms of noun principal
Part Meronyms of noun principal
Meronyms of noun principal
Holonyms of noun principal
1 of 5 senses of principal
Sense 1
principal
PART OF: loan
Attributes of noun principal
Derived Forms of noun principal
1 of 5 senses of principal
Sense 2
principal, school principal, head teacher, head
RELATED TO>(noun) principalship#1
=> principalship
Domain of noun principal
Domain Terms of noun principal
Familiarity of noun principal
principal used as a noun is common (polysemy count =5)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun principal
5 senses of principal
Sense 1
principal
> debt
=> arrears
=> national debt
=> public debt
=> debt limit, debt ceiling
=> bad debt
=> installment debt
=> loan
=> principal
=> score
Sense 2
principal, school principal, head teacher, head
> educator, pedagogue, pedagog
=> academician, academic, faculty member
=> lector, lecturer, reader
=> principal, school principal, head teacher, head
=> schoolmaster
=> teacher, instructor
HAS INSTANCE=> Bethune, Mary McLeod Bethune
HAS INSTANCE=> Braille, Louis Braille
HAS INSTANCE=> Carnegie, Dale Carnegie
HAS INSTANCE=> Comenius, John Amos Comenius, Jan Amos Komensky
HAS INSTANCE=> Dewey, John Dewey
HAS INSTANCE=> Froebel, Friedrich Froebel, Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel
HAS INSTANCE=> Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
HAS INSTANCE=> Hopkins, Mark Hopkins
HAS INSTANCE=> Hutchins, Robert Maynard Hutchins
HAS INSTANCE=> Laney, Lucy Craft Laney
HAS INSTANCE=> Lowell, Abbott Lawrence Lowell
HAS INSTANCE=> Mann, Horace Mann
HAS INSTANCE=> McGuffey, William Holmes McGuffey
HAS INSTANCE=> Montessori, Maria Montesorri
HAS INSTANCE=> Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan
HAS INSTANCE=> Naismith, James Naismith
HAS INSTANCE=> Orff, Carl Orff
HAS INSTANCE=> Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
HAS INSTANCE=> Pitman, Sir Isaac Pitman
HAS INSTANCE=> Sullivan, Anne Sullivan, Anne Mansfield Sullivan
HAS INSTANCE=> Washington, Booker T. Washington, Booker Taliaferro Washington
HAS INSTANCE=> White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White
HAS INSTANCE=> Willard, Emma Hart Willard
HAS INSTANCE=> Witherspoon, John Witherspoon
Sense 3
star, principal, lead
> actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player
=> actress
=> barnstormer, playactor, play-actor, trouper
=> character actor
=> comedian
=> ham, ham actor
=> heavy
=> ingenue
=> leading man
=> mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist
=> plant
=> reenactor
=> scene-stealer
=> screen actor, movie actor
=> star, principal, lead
=> supernumerary, spear carrier, extra
=> tragedian
=> understudy, standby
=> upstager
=> walk-on
HAS INSTANCE=> Allen, Woody Allen, Allen Stewart Konigsberg
HAS INSTANCE=> Astaire, Fred Astaire
HAS INSTANCE=> Barrymore, Maurice Barrymore, Herbert Blythe
HAS INSTANCE=> Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore
HAS INSTANCE=> Barrymore, John Barrymore
HAS INSTANCE=> Bogart, Humphrey Bogart, Humphrey DeForest Bogart
HAS INSTANCE=> Booth, John Wilkes Booth
HAS INSTANCE=> Burbage, Richard Burbage
HAS INSTANCE=> Burton, Richard Burton
HAS INSTANCE=> Cagney, Jimmy Cagney, James Cagney
HAS INSTANCE=> Chevalier, Maurice Chevalier
HAS INSTANCE=> Cooper, Gary Cooper, Frank Cooper
HAS INSTANCE=> Coward, Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward
HAS INSTANCE=> Cronyn, Hume Cronyn, Hume Blake Cronyn
HAS INSTANCE=> Crosby, Bing Crosby, Harry Lillis Crosby
HAS INSTANCE=> Dean, James Dean, James Byron Dean
HAS INSTANCE=> De Niro, Robert De Niro
HAS INSTANCE=> Depardieu, Gerard Depardieu
HAS INSTANCE=> Drew, John Drew
HAS INSTANCE=> Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Julius Ullman
HAS INSTANCE=> Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
HAS INSTANCE=> Fonda, Henry Fonda
HAS INSTANCE=> Gable, Clark Gable, William Clark Gable
HAS INSTANCE=> Garrick, David Garrick
HAS INSTANCE=> Gibson, Mel Gibson, Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson
HAS INSTANCE=> Gielgud, Sir John Gielgud, Arthur John Gielgud
HAS INSTANCE=> Grant, Cary Grant
HAS INSTANCE=> Granville-Barker, Harley Granville-Barker
HAS INSTANCE=> Guinness, Alec Guinness, Sir Alec Guinness
HAS INSTANCE=> Hanks, Tom Hanks, Thomas J. Hanks
HAS INSTANCE=> Harrison, Rex Harrison, Sir Rex Harrison, Reginald Carey Harrison
HAS INSTANCE=> Heming, Hemminge, John Heming, John Hemminge
HAS INSTANCE=> Hoffman, Dustin Hoffman
HAS INSTANCE=> Hopkins, Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
HAS INSTANCE=> Howard, Leslie Howard, Leslie Howard Stainer
HAS INSTANCE=> Jolson, Al Jolson, Asa Yoelson
HAS INSTANCE=> Karloff, Boris Karloff, William Henry Pratt
HAS INSTANCE=> Kean, Edmund Kean
HAS INSTANCE=> Keaton, Buster Keaton, Joseph Francis Keaton
HAS INSTANCE=> Kelly, Gene Kelly, Eugene Curran Kelly
HAS INSTANCE=> Laughton, Charles Laughton
HAS INSTANCE=> Lee, Bruce Lee, Lee Yuen Kam
HAS INSTANCE=> Lemmon, Jack Lemmon, John Uhler
HAS INSTANCE=> Lloyd, Harold Lloyd, Harold Clayton Lloyd
HAS INSTANCE=> Lorre, Peter Lorre, Laszlo Lowestein
HAS INSTANCE=> Lugosi, Bela Lugosi, Bela Ferenc Blasko
HAS INSTANCE=> Lunt, Alfred Lunt
HAS INSTANCE=> Marshall, E. G. Marshall
HAS INSTANCE=> Martin, Steve Martin
HAS INSTANCE=> Mason, James Mason, James Neville Mason
HAS INSTANCE=> Mitchum, Robert Mitchum
HAS INSTANCE=> Moore, Dudley Moore, Dudley Stuart John Moore
HAS INSTANCE=> Newman, Paul Newman, Paul Leonard Newman
HAS INSTANCE=> Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier of Birghton
HAS INSTANCE=> O'Toole, Peter O'Toole, Peter Seamus O'Toole
HAS INSTANCE=> Poitier, Sidney Poitier
HAS INSTANCE=> Redford, Robert Redford, Charles Robert Redford
HAS INSTANCE=> Richardson, Ralph Richardson, Sir Ralph David Richardson
HAS INSTANCE=> Robinson, Edward G. Robinson, Edward Goldenberg Robinson
HAS INSTANCE=> Scott, George C. Scott
HAS INSTANCE=> Sellers, Peter Sellers
HAS INSTANCE=> Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Francis Albert Sinatra
HAS INSTANCE=> Skinner, Otis Skinner
HAS INSTANCE=> Stanislavsky, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev
HAS INSTANCE=> Stewart, Jimmy Stewart, James Maitland Stewart
HAS INSTANCE=> Strasberg, Lee Strasberg, Israel Strassberg
HAS INSTANCE=> Stroheim, Erich von Stroheim
HAS INSTANCE=> Tracy, Spencer Tracy
HAS INSTANCE=> Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
HAS INSTANCE=> Ustinov, Sir Peter Ustinov, Peter Alexander Ustinov
HAS INSTANCE=> Wayne, John Wayne, Duke Wayne
HAS INSTANCE=> Welles, Orson Welles, George Orson Welles
Sense 4
principal, corpus, principal sum
> capital
=> endowment, endowment fund
=> means, substance
=> principal, corpus, principal sum
Sense 5
principal, dealer
> financier, moneyman
=> banker
=> city man
=> principal, dealer
HAS INSTANCE=> Baruch, Bernard Baruch, Bernard Mannes Baruch
HAS INSTANCE=> Brady, James Buchanan Brady, Diamond Jim Brady, Diamond Jim
HAS INSTANCE=> Cooke, Jay Cooke
HAS INSTANCE=> Cosimo de Medici, Cosimo the Elder
HAS INSTANCE=> Girard, Stephen Girard
HAS INSTANCE=> Gould, Jay Gould
HAS INSTANCE=> Gresham, Sir Thomas Gresham
HAS INSTANCE=> Harriman, Averell Harriman, William Averell Harriman
HAS INSTANCE=> Hopkins, Johns Hopkins
HAS INSTANCE=> Mellon, Andrew Mellon, Andrew W. Mellon, Andrew William Mellon
HAS INSTANCE=> Morgan, J. P. Morgan, John Pierpont Morgan
HAS INSTANCE=> Morris, Robert Morris
HAS INSTANCE=> Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes
HAS INSTANCE=> Salomon, Haym Salomon
HAS INSTANCE=> Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Commodore Vanderbilt
Meronyms of noun principal
5 senses of principal
Sense 2
principal, school principal, head teacher, head
=> educator, pedagogue, pedagog
=> professional, professional person
=> adult, grownup
HAS PART: adult body
HAS PART: pubic hair, bush, crotch hair
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 3
star, principal, lead
=> actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player
=> performer, performing artist
=> entertainer
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 5
principal, dealer
=> financier, moneyman
=> capitalist
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Holonyms of noun principal
1 of 5 senses of principal
Sense 1
principal
PART OF: loan
Grep of noun principal
principal
principal axis
principal diagonal
principal investigator
principal sum
principality
principality of andorra
principality of liechtenstein
principality of monaco
principalship
school principal
Antonyms of adj principal
1 sense of principal
Sense 1
chief(prenominal), main(prenominal), primary(prenominal), principal(prenominal)
INDIRECT (VIA important) -> unimportant
Similarity of adj principal
1 sense of principal
Sense 1
chief(prenominal), main(prenominal), primary(prenominal), principal(prenominal)
=> important (vs. unimportant), of import
Pertainyms of adj principal
Attributes of adj principal
Domain of adj principal
Domain Terms of adj principal
Familiarity of adj principal
principal used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj principal
principal
Grep of adv principal
principally
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