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principal

/ˈprɪnsɪp(ə)l/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈprɪnsɪp(ə)l/

principal

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

prin - ci - pal -> principal

Myanmar meaning

(adj) အဓိက။ ကျောင်း၊ကောလိပ်တစ်ခု၏ကျောင်းအုပ်ကြီး။ အဓိကဇာတ်ဆောင်၊သရုပ်ဆောင်စသည်။ ငွေရင်း။ စီးပွားရေးသို့တရားဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာကိစ္စအတွက်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ်ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးသူ။ (n) ကျောင်းအုပ်

Full entry

principal /'prÇnsǝpl/ adj

အဓိက။ build new roads to link the country's principal cities ❍ The Danube is one of the principal rivers of Europe. ❍ The principal aim of the scheme is to bring employment to the area.
n
၁။ (ကျောင်း၊ ကောလိပ်တစ်ခု၏) ကျောင်းအုပ်ကြီး။ the Principal of Edinburgh University.
၂။ အဓိက (ဇာတ်ဆောင်၊ သရုပ်ဆောင်စသည်)။ a principal actor/role.
၃။ (usu sing ) (finance ) ငွေရင်း။ repay principal and interest.
၄။ စီးပွားရေး (သို့) တရားဥပဒေ ဆိုင်ရာ ကိစ္စအတွက် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ် ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးသူ။
❏ principally /-pli/ adv အဓိကအားဖြင့်။ The book is principally aimed at beginners. ❍ The scheme failed principally because of a lack of finance.
❏ principal parts n [pl ] (grammar ) အင်္ဂလိပ်သဒ္ဒါတွင် ကြိယာ(တစ်ခု၏) သဏ္ဌာန်အမျိုးမျိုးတို့တွင် ပင်ရင်းဖြစ်သော အခြေခံကြိယာ၊ အတိတ်ကာလပြကြိယာနှင့် အတိတ်အခြေအနေပြ ကြိယာ။

More examples

The principal aim of the project is to provide an answer to this question.
The salary is good, but that is not the principal reason I accepted the job.

Synonyms

main, major, chief, most important, primary, prime, key, foremost, basic, fundamental, administrator, arch, assets, big gun, big shot, boss, capital, capital funds, cardinal, champion, controlling, crowning, dean, director, dominant, doyen, doyenne, essential, exec, first, greatest, head, head of school, head teacher, headmaster, headmistress, highest, incomparable, key player, lead, leader, leading, leading light, mainline, matchless, maximum, money, outstanding, paramount, peerless, preceptor, predominant, preeminent, premier, prevailing, prominent, protagonist, provost, rector, ruler, second-to-none, sovereign, star, stellar, strongest, supereminent, superintendent, superior, supreme, transcendent, unapproachable, unequaled, unparalleled, unrivaled

Antonyms

auxiliary, commoner, employee, extra, follower, inconspicuous, inessential, inferior, insignificant, interest, last, least, lesser, lower, minor, nonessential, ordinary, poor, secondary, subordinate, trivial, unimportant, unknown, worker

Cross references

main major chief most important primary prime key foremost basic fundamental administrator arch assets big gun big shot boss capital capital funds cardinal champion controlling crowning dean director dominant doyen doyenne essential

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