A person who is in charge
English: head, chief, top dog
pengetuaBahasa Indonesia
head, chancellor, chief, dean, doyen
Rare
#49,002 of the corpus · 0.4 per million words · 1,761 occurrences
From tua (peN-) · very common, #327
Noun
A man who is the senior member of a group
English: dean, doyen
Bahasa: dekan
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Presiding officer of a school
English: headmaster, schoolmaster, master
Bahasa: guru, guru besar
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2 more noun senses
The educator who has executive authority for a school
English: principal, school principal, head teacher, head
Bahasa: utama, guru besar
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The honorary or titular head of a university
English: chancellor
Bahasa: rektor
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