Synonyms of the word

principal

• adj. Primary; most important.
• adj. (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
• n. (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are…
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The chief administrator of a school.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
• n. (law) One who directs another (the agent) to act on one′s behalf.
• n. (law) The primary participant in a crime.
• n. A company represented by a salesperson.
• n. (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
• n. (music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
• n. (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss…
• n. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
• n. One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse…
• n. (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
• n. A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
• n. (computing) A security principal.

actor

• n. A person who performs in a theatrical play or film.
• n. One who acts; a doer.
• n. One who takes part in a situation.
• n. (law) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
• n. (law) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
• n. (policy debate) One who enacts a certain policy action.
• n. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

capital

• n. (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such…
• n. (uncountable, business, finance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially…
• n. (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the…
• n. (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
• n. (countable) An uppercase letter.
• n. (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
• n. (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
• adj. Of prime importance.
• adj. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
• adj. (comparable, Britain, dated) Excellent.
• adj. Involving punishment by death.
• adj. Uppercase.
• adj. Of or relating to the head.

chief

• n. A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
• n. (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon.
• n. An informal address to an equal.
• adj. Primary; principal.
• v. (US, slang) To smoke cannabis.

corpus

• n. (linguistics) A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific…
• n. (uncommon) A body, a collection.
• n. (printing, dated) Synonym of long primer.

dealer

• n. One who deals things, especially automobiles; a middleman.
• n. One who peddles illicit drugs, especially to teenagers.
• n. A particular type of stock broker or trader.
• n. The person who deals the cards in a card game.

debt

• n. An action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another,…
• n. The state or condition of owing something to another.
• n. Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan…
• n. (law) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.

educator

• n. A person distinguished for his/her educational work.
• n. A teacher.

financier

• n. A person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions.
• n. A company that does the same.
• n. One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
• n. A light, spongy teacake, usually based on almond flour or flavoring.
• n. A traditional French (Ragoût a la Financière) or Piemontese (Finanziera alla piemontese) rich sauce or…

head

• n. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense…
• n. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
• n. (social, countable) A leader or expert.
• n. A significant or important part.
• n. Headway; progress.
• n. Topic; subject.
• n. (uncountable) Denouement; crisis.
• n. (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
• n. (slang) The glans penis.
• n. (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
• n. (obsolete) Power; armed force.
• adj. Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
• adj. Foremost in rank or importance.
• adj. Placed at the top or the front.
• adj. Coming from in front.
• v. (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.).
• v. (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball.
• v. (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
• v. (fishing) To remove the head from a fish.
• v. (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
• v. (intransitive) To form a head.
• v. To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
• v. To cut off the top of; to lop off.
• v. (obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
• v. To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain.
• v. To set on the head.

histrion

• n. (obsolete) A stage actor.

important

• adj. Having relevant and crucial value.

lead

• n. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnishe…
• n. (countable) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at seaor (dated) to estimate…
• n. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
• n. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
• n. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
• n. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
• n. (countable) A thin cylinder of black lead or plumbago (graphite) used in pencils.
• n. (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
• v. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
• v. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
• v. (heading, transitive) To guide or conduct.
• v. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing…
• v. (heading) To begin, to be ahead.
• v. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice;…
• v. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
• v. To produce (with to).
• v. Misspelling of led.
• n. (uncountable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course.
• n. (uncountable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead…
• n. (countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
• n. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
• n. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit,…
• n. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
• n. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
• n. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
• n. (countable, mining) A lode.
• n. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
• n. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash.
• n. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release…
• n. Charging lead.
• n. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
• n. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
• n. Hypothesis that has not been pursued.
• n. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details…
• n. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
• n. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more…
• n. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
• n. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why…
• n. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast.
• n. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times…
• n. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
• n. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
• n. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance…
• n. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound…
• n. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter…
• n. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive…
• adj. (not comparable) Foremost.
• adj. (music) main, principal.
• v. Misspelling of led.

main

• adj. (obsolete) Great in size or degree; vast; strong; powerful; important.
• adj. Principal; prime; chief; leading; of chief or principal importance.
• adj. Principal or chief in size or extent; largest; consisting of the largest part; most important by reason…
• adj. Full; undivided; sheer (of strength, force etc.).
• adj. (nautical) Belonging to or connected with the principal mast in a vessel.
• adj. (dialectal) Big; angry.
• adv. (Britain, dialectal) Very; very much; greatly; mightily; extremely; exceedingly.
• v. (transitive) To mainly play a specific character, or side, when playing a game.
• n. (obsolete, except in might and main) Strength; power; force; violent effort.
• n. That which is chief or principal; the chief or main portion; the gross; the bulk; the greater part.
• n. (informal) The main course, or principal dish of a meal.
• n. (now archaic, US dialectal) The mainland.
• n. (now poetic) The high seas.
• n. A large pipe or cable providing utility service to a building or area, such as water main or electric…
• n. (nautical) The mainsail.
• n. A hand or match in a game of dice.
• n. A stake played for at dice.
• n. The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
• n. A match at cockfighting.
• n. A main-hamper, or fruit basket.

moneyman

• n. Someone tasked with handling money, often specifically a financier.

pedagog

• n. Alternative form of pedagogue.

pedagogue

• n. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
• n. A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the…
• n. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them…

player

• n. One that plays.
• n. One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
• n. A significant participant.
• n. (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.

primary

• adj. The first in a group or series.
• adj. Main; principal; placed ahead of others.
• adj. (geology) Earliest formed; fundamental.
• adj. (chemistry) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree;…
• adj. (medicine) Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
• adj. (medicine) Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners,…
• n. A primary election; a preliminary election to select a political candidate of a political party.
• n. The first year of grade school.
• n. A base or fundamental component; something that is irreducible.
• n. The most massive component of a gravitationally bound system.
• n. A primary school.
• n. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the manus (hand) of a bird.
• n. A primary colour.
• n. (electronics) A directly driven inductive coil, as in a transformer or induction motor that is magnetically…
• v. (US, intransitive) To take part in a primary election.
• v. (US, politics) To challenge an incumbent sitting politician for their political party's endorsement to…

star

• n. Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location…
• n. (astronomy) A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having…
• n. (geometry) A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, generally with five or…
• n. (acting) An actor in a leading role.
• n. An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
• n. (printing) An asterisk (*).
• n. A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
• n. A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in…
• n. (astrology) A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.
• n. A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
• n. A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in…
• v. (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
• v. (transitive) To feature a performer or a headliner, especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
• v. (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.

thespian

• adj. Of, or relating to drama and acting; dramatic, theatrical.
• n. An actor or player.