[
  {
    "word": "principal",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8p\u0279\u026ans\u0259p\u0259l/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8p\u0279\u026ans\u0259p\u0259l/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/principal-au.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75649235",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0"
        }
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8p\u0279\u026ans\u0259p\u032c\u0259l/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/principal-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1648293",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest."
          },
          {
            "definition": "The chief administrator of a school.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "My principal sells metal shims."
          },
          {
            "definition": "The primary participant in a crime.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A partner or owner of a business.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An essential point or rule; a principle.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A security principal.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "dean",
          "client",
          "diapason",
          "proprietor",
          "ringleader",
          "headmaster",
          "headmistress",
          "headteacher"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Primary; most important; first level in importance.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Smith is the principal architect of this design."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "chief",
          "main",
          "primary"
        ],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/principal"
    ]
  }
]