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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

교장

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gyojang

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Principal/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"교장 선생님께서 새 학기 인사말을 하셨다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The person with the highest authority or most important position in an organization, particularly a school.

    "The principal addressed the students during the morning assembly."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin adjective 'principalis', meaning 'first' or 'original', which comes from 'princeps' (first man, leader), itself a compound of 'primus' (first) and 'capere' (to take). Entering Middle English via Old French in the 14th century, the word initially denoted a person of highest authority or the chief part of something, later expanding to financial and educational domains.

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