PRINCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does princess mean? 

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

1. a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRINCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

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

archduchess (a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria)

crown princess (a female heir apparent to a throne)

maharanee; maharani (a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja)

princess royal (the eldest daughter of a British sovereign)

Instance hyponyms:

Dido ((Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas)

Sleeping Beauty (fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss)

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

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

 Context examples 

No person dined with the queen but the two princesses royal, the eldest sixteen years old, and the younger at that time thirteen and a month.

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

The chances are that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his princess.

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

The princess was angry, and she knew, of course, who did it.

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

He rode on with the princess, till at last he came to the village where he had left his two brothers.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I know something of it, for I belonged to it before you made a princess of me, as the king does the beggarmaid in the old story.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Both her cast of form and feature, her complexion and her general air, suggested the idea of some Israelitish princess of the patriarchal days; and such was doubtless the character she intended to represent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But the whole effect is spoiled when I look at them—at Tetralani, five feet ten in her stocking feet and weighing a hundred and ninety pounds, and at Barillo, a scant five feet four, greasy-featured, with the chest of a squat, undersized blacksmith, and at the pair of them, attitudinizing, clasping their breasts, flinging their arms in the air like demented creatures in an asylum; and when I am expected to accept all this as the faithful illusion of a love-scene between a slender and beautiful princess and a handsome, romantic, young prince—why, I can't accept it, that's all.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then she gave him a cloak, and said, “As soon as you put that on you will become invisible, and you will then be able to follow the princesses wherever they go.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But the pretty princess did not seem to understand, for she picked her roses quietly, and left him to fight his way in.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There lived here then, away at the North, a beautiful princess, who was also a powerful sorceress.

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