PRINCE OF WALES

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

1. the male heir apparent of the British sovereign

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

• PRINCE OF WALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The male heir apparent of the British sovereign

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Prince of Wales" is a kind of...):

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

Instance hyponyms:

Charles; Prince Charles (the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948))

Black Prince; Edward (son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376))

 Context examples 

Of course, I’ve been at the ringside incog. many a time, but never as the Prince of Wales.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such ornaments on the mantelpiece, such prints, including a portrait of George the Third, and another of the Prince of Wales, and a representation of the death of Wolfe.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My powerful and illustrious master, he began, Charles, King of Navarre, Earl of Evreux, Count of Champagne, who also writeth himself Overlord of Bearn, hereby sends his love and greetings to his dear cousin Edward, the Prince of Wales, Governor of Aquitaine, Grand Commander of—

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle whispered for a few moments with the Prince of Wales.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These I took in at a glance, but it was upon the man in the centre that my gaze was fixed, for this I knew must be the Prince of Wales.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My heart was down in the soles of my little silver-buckled shoes now that I had the immediate prospect of meeting so great and terrible a person as the Prince of Wales.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Those were the days when the Prince of Wales had just built his singular palace by the sea, and so from May to September, which was the Brighton season, there was never a day that from one to two hundred curricles, chaises, and phaetons did not rattle past our doors.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was much laughter and clapping of glasses upon the table at the conclusion of old Buckhorse’s story, and I saw the Prince of Wales hand something to the waiter, who brought it round and slipped it into the skinny hand of the veteran, who spat upon it before thrusting it into his pocket.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She came of a poor family, but one of some position, for her elder brother was the famous Sir Charles Tregellis, who, having inherited the money of a wealthy East Indian merchant, became in time the talk of the town and the very particular friend of the Prince of Wales.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In an age when the Premier was a heavy drinker, the Leader of the Opposition a libertine, and the Prince of Wales a combination of the two, it was hard to know where to look for a man whose private and public characters were equally lofty.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)