PRICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Price mean? 

• PRICE (noun)
  The noun PRICE has 7 senses:

1. the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)

2. the amount of money needed to purchase something

3. value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

4. the high value or worth of something

5. a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal

6. cost of bribing someone

7. United States operatic soprano (born 1927)

  Familiarity information: PRICE used as a noun is common.

• PRICE (verb)
  The verb PRICE has 2 senses:

1. determine the price of

2. ascertain or learn the price of

  Familiarity information: PRICE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cost; monetary value; price

Context example:

he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

value (the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "price"):

differential cost; incremental cost; marginal cost (the increase or decrease in costs as a result of one more or one less unit of output)

expensiveness (the quality of being high-priced)

assessment (the market value set on assets)

inexpensiveness (the quality of being affordable)

average cost (total cost for all units bought (or produced) divided by the number of units)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The amount of money needed to purchase something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

damage; price; terms

Context example:

how much is the damage?

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "price"):

factory price (price charged for goods picked up at the factory)

valuation (assessed price)

support level ((stock market) the price at which a certain security becomes attractive to investors)

cash price; spot price (the current delivery price of a commodity traded in the spot market)

purchase price (the price at which something is actually purchased)

highway robbery (an exorbitant price)

closing price ((stock market) the price of the last transaction completed during a day's trading session)

bid price ((stock market) the price at which a broker is willing to buy a certain security)

asking price; selling price (the price at which something is offered for sale)

Derivation:

price (ascertain or learn the price of)

price (determine the price of)

pricey; pricy (having a high price)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cost; price; toll

Context example:

what price glory?

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

value (the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "price"):

death toll (the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The high value or worth of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

her price is far above rubies

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

worth (the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful)

Derivation:

pricey; pricy (having a high price)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the cattle thief has a price on his head

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

reward (the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Cost of bribing someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

they say that every politician has a price

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

Sense 7

Meaning:

United States operatic soprano (born 1927)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Leontyne Price; Mary Leontyne Price; Price

Instance hypernyms:

soprano (a female singer)

• PRICE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they price    ... he / she / it prices   
Past simple: priced   
Past participle: priced   
-ing form: pricing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determine the price of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

The grocer priced his wares high

Hypernyms (to "price" is one way to...):

determine; set (fix conclusively or authoritatively)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "price"):

mark up (increase the price of)

manipulate; rig (manipulate in a fraudulent manner)

overprice (price excessively high)

underquote (offer for sale at a price lower than the market price)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

price (the amount of money needed to purchase something)

pricing (the evaluation of something in terms of its price)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ascertain or learn the price of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

Have you priced personal computers lately?

Hypernyms (to "price" is one way to...):

ascertain (learn or discover with certainty)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

price (the amount of money needed to purchase something)

pricing (the evaluation of something in terms of its price)

 Context examples 

Then, again, where is the price of his treason?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The house was by this time somewhat cleared of smoke, and we saw at a glance the price we had paid for victory.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A list of goods or services on sale with their description and prices published as a printed document, or as an electronic document.

(Catalog, NCI Thesaurus)

But I have named that price, so I intend to stick to it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, my dear Miss Price, and for reasons good.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

‘He would rather have our small price than your big one,’ said he.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have an extraordinary chart, and if you could bottle your star power and sell it, people would beat a path to your door and snap it up at any price.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I shall tell her, in no more wureds than I speak to you, what it's the price on; and that I'm gone, and past receiving of it back.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Considering that the price of dogs had been boomed skyward by the unwonted demand, it was not an unfair sum for so fine an animal.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And don’t you think your miserable life worth the price?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)