PRINCIPLE
- a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption
- rule or code of conduct
- primary source origin
- underlying faculty or endowment such principles of human nature as greed and curiosity
- ingredient (as a chemical) that exhibits or imparts a characteristic quality
- divine principle god
- a guiding rule [n -S] / to ground (a person) in the principles or elements of a subject [v PRINCIPLED, PRINCIPLING, PRINCIPLES]