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prince
/pɹɪns/
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What does prince mean?
noun
- Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
- The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
- A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.
More meanings (14)
noun
- A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire.
- A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.
- The mushroom Agaricus augustus.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Rohana.
- The title of a prince.
- (archaic, historical) A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.
- (obsolete) A female monarch.
proper noun
- A surname transferred from the nickname for someone who acted like a prince, or played the part in a pageant, or served in the household of a prince.
- A male given name from English in occasional use.
- A township in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.
- A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Meota No. 468, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A census-designated place in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
verb
- (rare) To behave or act like a prince.
- (rare) To transform (someone) into a prince.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹɪns/
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Hurriedly the prince and Vas Kor disembarked and entered the drop that would carry them to the lower levels of the palace.
Squires, pages, and yeomen in rich liveries, waited around this place of honour, which was designed for Prince John and his attendants.
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He said he couldn’t scarcely believe he was standing on the very identical spot the prince flew from on the Bronze Horse.
His delineator does not forget to mention the attitude of mystery in which the Prince took refuge whenever his feelings were hurt.
“And then that transcendent girl will confess to me that when she threw overboard her prince she remembered that I adored her!”