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What does principle mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word principle? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
  2. A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
  3. (pluralize) Moral rule or aspect.
  4. (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
  5. A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
  6. (obsolete) A beginning.
  7. A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
  8. An original faculty or endowment.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
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