Prince
[prɪns]
Definition
(noun.) a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign).
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Definition
(a.) The one of highest rank; one holding the highest place and authority; a sovereign; a monarch; -- originally applied to either sex, but now rarely applied to a female.
(a.) The son of a king or emperor, or the issue of a royal family; as, princes of the blood.
(a.) A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only. In Italy a prince is inferior to a duke as a member of a particular order of nobility; in Spain he is always one of the royal family.
(a.) The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is preeminent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players.
(v. i.) To play the prince.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sovereign, ruler, monarch, potentate.[2]. Sovereign's son (especially the eldest son).
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Definition
n. one of the highest rank: a sovereign: son of a king or emperor: a title of nobility as in Germany: the chief of any body of men:—fem. Prin′cess.—v.i. to play the prince (usually with it).—ns. Prince′-bish′op a bishop who was also the civil ruler or prince of his diocese; Prince′-Con′sort the husband of a reigning queen; Prince′dom the estate jurisdiction sovereignty or rank of a prince; Prince′hood rank or quality of a prince; Prince′-Impē′rial the eldest son of an emperor; Prince′kin Prince′let Prince′ling a little or inferior prince.—adj. Prince′-like becoming a prince.—n. Prince′liness.—adj. Prince′ly prince-like: becoming a prince: grand: august: regal.—adv. in a prince-like manner.—adv. Prin′cessly like a princess.—n. Prin′cess-Roy′al the eldest daughter of a sovereign.—adj. Prin′cified ridiculously dignified.—n. Mer′chant-prince a merchant who has gained great wealth.—Prince of darkness Prince of this world Satan; Prince of Peace Christ: the Messiah; Prince of Wales the eldest son of the British sovereign; Prince Rupert's drops (see Drop); Prince's feather a tall showy annual with spikes of rose-coloured flowers; Prince's metal a gold-like alloy of 70 parts of copper and 25 of zinc.
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Examples
- I suppose you are the only independent prince in the ?gean? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- We should lose no time, Prince, replied Kantos Kan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The Crown Prince is always in opposition to the crown or hankering after it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My Prince, he started, where hast thou-- and then he stopped, but I knew the question that his lips dared not frame. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- De Bracy, said Prince John, what means this? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- An earthquake-proof steel palace for the Crown Prince of Japan is one of the modern applications of steel in architecture. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- On the third day, the prince's servant was again despatched on the same errand, and he was at last successful. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- If Miss Mowcher cuts the Prince's nails, she must be all right. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The open struggle of the private property owner against the aggressions of the Prince begins in England far back in the twelfth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It bodes no good for us, O Prince, she said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Next I reflected that Frederick Lamb was younger than the Prince; but then again, a Prince of Wales! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- This is most complimentary to the virtue of Prince Bladud's tears, and strongly corroborative of the veracity of this legend. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Prince John had now no further excuse for resisting the claim of the Disinherited Knight, whom, therefore, he named the champion of the day. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Was it only ten years since she had wavered in imagination between the English earl and the Italian prince? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Prince Dolgorouki and a Grand Admiral or two, whom we had seen yesterday at the reception, came on board also. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Ferdinand, the brother of Charles V, took over his abandoned work and met the German princes at the diet of Augsburg in 1555. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But in spite of the comical red imps, sparkling elves, and the gorgeous princes and princesses, Jo's pleasure had a drop of bitterness in it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They did not want to be bothered with it; it was, they conceded, the affairs of kings and princes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was busy just then gathering support among the German princes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As for his shoulders and arms they continued as before; Frenchmen cannot work miracles like German princes! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It was a suggestion that never afterwards left the imagination of the European princes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- BOOK VIII THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS XXXVI PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS § 1. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There I saw the empress and the young princes, in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- When the princes were themselves sufficiently clever they too were Machiavellian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I believe all moderate men will allow, that they have great force in all disputes concerning the rights of princes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- No other princes had stopped there since, till Jack and I came. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The art of war was the trade of kings and princes, and princely was the reward to the subject who was the first to invent the most destructive weapon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Gradually the Ottoman princes consolidated an empire that reached from the Taurus mountains in the east to Hungary and Roumania in the west. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His ruling thought, his great contribution to political literature, was that the moral obligations upon ordinary men cannot bind princes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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