school principal

1. 1.

   the educator who has executive authority for a school

   “she sent unruly pupils to see the principal”

   Synonymsprincipalhead teacherhead

   Broadereducator

   Narrowerchancellorheadmasterheadmistress

Questions about school principal

What does school principal mean?

school principal means "the educator who has executive authority for a school".

What is another word for school principal?

Close synonyms include principal, head teacher, head. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is school principal a common word?

school principal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.