Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
One that is classical in some way; for example, a classical economist.
Primary; most important; first level in importance.
Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
The chief administrator of a school.
A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
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.
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
The primary participant in a crime.
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
A security principal.
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.
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
A partner or owner of a business.
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned