PRINCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (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)

Credits

Context examples:

A Russian prince condescended to sit in a corner for an hour and talk with a massive lady, dressed like Hamlet's mother in black velvet with a pearl bridle under her chin.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My prince must be tall, and slender, and dark—a graceful, bewitching prince.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then the young prince said, “All this shall not frighten me; I will go and see this Briar Rose.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“But my friend Sir Oliver can fight right hardily without either bite or sup,” remarked the prince.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This resolution perhaps may appear very bold and dangerous, and I am confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe on the like occasion.

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

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.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He felt like a prince returned from exile, and his lonely heart burgeoned in the geniality in which it bathed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The prince took the shoe, and went the next day to the king his father, and said, “I will take for my wife the lady that this golden slipper fits.”