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prince
/pɹɪns/
noun 6name 5verb 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
alone, beyond, english, handsome, known, legitimate, lost, lost
The handsome prince arrived at the castle just before midnight.
PRINCE + NOUN
charles, darkness, fiction, fielder, princess
The prince and princess waved to crowds from the palace balcony.
PREP.
down, from, in, into, out
The young prince stepped down from his horse after the long journey across the kingdom.
ADV.
exceptionally
The young prince was exceptionally talented at playing the violin since childhood.
Definitions
noun
1
A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.
Truely, to see our Princes all alone, sitting at their meat, beleagred round with so many talkers, whisperers, and gazing beholders, unknowne what they are or whence they come, I have often rather pittied than envied them.
By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power for good remained undimmed.
2
A female monarch.
Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.
3
Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
He is a prince among men.
In some respects the intellectual is indeed closer to the philosopher than to any specialist, and the philosopher is in more than one sense a sort of prince among the intellectuals.
4
The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
He is the prince who never grew up – a one-time playboy and son of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.
5
A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.
verb
1
To behave or act like a prince.
The Roofes of Palaces, and Nature prompts them / In ſimple and lowe things, to Prince it, much / Beyond the tricke of others.
2
To transform (someone) into a prince.
All I could remember is the chorus, and something about pumpkins turning into princesses (???!) and frogs turning into princes. I figured she meant the frog was John before she princed him.
noun
1
The title of a prince.
Having been at the center of an international tragedy, the general public view is that the next generation—Princes William and Harry, and also Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice—have suffered enough and deserve every moment of happiness coming their way, and people are more than willing to help them celebrate their successes.
Germany last year said it had foiled an attempt by another far-right group – the Reichsbuerger movement - to plot accused of plotting an attack on Germany’s parliament building, allegedly to overthrow its constitutional order and install the group’s central figure – aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss – as leader.
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Truely, to see our Princes all alone, sitting at their meat, beleagred round with so many talkers, whisperers, and gazing beholders, unknowne what they are or whence they come, I have often rather pit
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By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power f
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If Henry does not fully trust him, is it surprising? A prince is alone: in his council chamber, in his bedchamber, and finally in Hell's antechamber, stripped – as Harry Percy said – for Judgment.
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The Roofes of Palaces, and Nature prompts them / In ſimple and lowe things, to Prince it, much / Beyond the tricke of others.
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All I could remember is the chorus, and something about pumpkins turning into princesses (???!) and frogs turning into princes. I figured she meant the frog was John before she princed him.
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Having been at the center of an international tragedy, the general public view is that the next generation—Princes William and Harry, and also Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice—have suffered enough and
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