PRINCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prince mean? 

• PRINCE (noun)
  The noun PRINCE has 1 sense:

1. a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)

  Familiarity information: PRINCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRINCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

aristocrat; blue blood; patrician (a member of the aristocracy)

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

archduke (a sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria)

crown prince (a male heir apparent to a throne)

dauphin (formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne)

grand duke (a prince who rules a territory)

maharaja; maharajah (a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja)

Elector (any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire)

prince consort (a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign)

princeling (a young prince)

princeling (a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality)

Prince of Wales (the male heir apparent of the British sovereign)

Instance hyponyms:

Cyrus; Cyrus the Younger (Persian prince who was defeated in battle by his brother Artaxerxes II (424-401 BC))

Edward; Edward Antony Richard Louis; Prince Edward (third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964))

Duke of Edinburgh; Philip; Prince Philip (Englishman and husband of Elizabeth II (born 1921))

Prince Rupert; Rupert (English leader (born in Germany) of the Royalist forces during the English Civil War (1619-1682))

Holonyms ("prince" is a member of...):

royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty (royal persons collectively)

Derivation:

princedom (territory ruled by a prince)

princedom (the dignity or rank or position of a prince)

princely (having the rank of or befitting a prince)

 Context examples 

The prince told him to send her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Vex not your mind on that,” the prince answered, smiling.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was asleep till the fairy prince came through the wood, and waked it up.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He would keep open house and entertain like a prince.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is a name of heroism and renown; of kings, princes, and knights; and seems to breathe the spirit of chivalry and warm affections.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There were milkmaids and shepherdesses, with brightly colored bodices and golden spots all over their gowns; and princesses with most gorgeous frocks of silver and gold and purple; and shepherds dressed in knee breeches with pink and yellow and blue stripes down them, and golden buckles on their shoes; and princes with jeweled crowns upon their heads, wearing ermine robes and satin doublets; and funny clowns in ruffled gowns, with round red spots upon their cheeks and tall, pointed caps. And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy's knee.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then the prince got down and looked at her foot; and he saw, by the blood that streamed from it, what a trick she had played him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“A gift, my prince!” shouted the other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This prince took a pleasure in conversing with me, inquiring into the manners, religion, laws, government, and learning of Europe; wherein I gave him the best account I was able.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)