golden vs principal

golden

adj
  • Advantageous or very favourable. 

  • Made of, or relating to, gold. 

  • Fine, without problems. 

  • Having a colour or other richness suggestive of gold. 

  • Of a beverage, flavoured or colored with turmeric. 

  • Marked by prosperity, creativity etc. 

  • Relating to a fiftieth anniversary. 

  • Relating to the elderly or retired. 

verb
  • To become gold or golden (in colour). 

  • To make golden or like gold. 

noun
  • Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia. 

principal

adj
  • 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. 

noun
  • 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 

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