Clues for the word "PRINCIPLE"
We've had 12 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 19 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on September 05, 2025.
Definition of principle
- n. - Beginning; commencement.
- n. - A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- n. - An original faculty or endowment.
- n. - A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate.
- n. - A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle.
- n. - Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc.
- v. t. - To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - September 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 04, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 26, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - April 21, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - November 15, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - August 27, 2017
- Universal - July 09, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - June 12, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - January 09, 2017
- New York Times - May 21, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - June 19, 2015
- Guardian Quick - January 16, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - September 18, 2009
- Universal - May 18, 2009
- Washington Post - October 21, 2007
- Guardian Cryptic - March 27, 2007
- Guardian Quick - February 07, 2006
- Guardian Quick - November 17, 2005