FLAGSHIPS Synonyms

• of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary

• a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen

• one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing

• (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it

• coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit

• not derived from or reducible to something else; basic

• most important element

• of or being the essential or basic part

• the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated

• the educator who has executive authority for a school

• an actor who plays a principal role

• capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

• (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement

• the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account

• most important element

• going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way

• the activity of leading

• thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing

• indicating the most important performer or role

• greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement

• having the leading position or higher score in a contest

• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

• any very large body of (salt) water

• a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage

• most important element

• of force; of the greatest possible intensity

• of greater importance or stature or rank

• greater in scope or effect

• greater in number or size or amount

• of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes

• (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees

• of greater seriousness or danger

• of full legal age

• a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain

• British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)

• a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject

• the principal field of study of a student at a university

• of the elder of two boys with the same family name

• have as one's principal field of study

• the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom

• the person who is head of government (in several countries)

• first in rank or degree

• preceding all others in time

• be performed for the first time

• perform a work for the first time

• a setting in which something can be displayed to best effect

• a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home