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PRINCE OF WALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The male heir apparent of the British sovereign
Classified under:
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))