Synonyms of principals

principals

noun

plural of principal

as in stars

the person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show

my cousin is one of the principals in a new sitcom this fall

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stars
• headliners
• leads
• superstars
• leading men
• leading ladies
• starlets
• ingenues
• costars
• coprincipals
• star turns

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• extras
• supernumeraries

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of principals

Then control runs downhill to individual school districts, filtering through local school boards and even principals. — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026

Donaldson and her research team worked with data from surveys administered to principals from across the country, as well as qualitative interviews with principals from Connecticut, Washington, and Tennessee. — Mac Murray, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026

So why now when the team principals meet is the room is all men? — Luke Smith, New York Times, 30 June 2026

The Austrian Alps are fantastically photogenic, and the principals in the Plamberger trial had left a detailed record of their time in the mountains on social media. — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

The matter simmered until February 24, 1976, when the board, after one of its regular meetings, asked Irving Carroll and Ernest Valenze, the principals of Island Trees’ two high schools, to remove the books from the library shelves. — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

The district has already taken steps this year to try and lessen the deficit, including cutting its teaching staff and some assistant principals. — Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026

As of mid-May, CPS had delivered more than 600 proposals to principals on how to handle the shortfall, and early reporting at the time indicated that the district seemed to be preparing to cut some positions. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 June 2026

That pipeline dried up after Brexit ended the free movement of labor, one of the bloc’s founding principals. — Danica Kirka, Fortune, 22 June 2026