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prince.

A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.

6 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/pɹɪns/

  1. A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.

    archaic · historical

  2. A female monarch.

    obsolete

  3. Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.

    He is a prince among men.

  4. The (male) ruler or head of a principality.

  5. A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.

  6. A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire.

    Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.

  7. A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.

  8. The mushroom Agaricus augustus.

  9. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Rohana.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English prince, from Anglo-Norman prince, from Latin prī̆nceps (“first head”), from prīmus (“first”) + capiō (“seize, take”). Cognate with Old English fruma (“prince, ruler”). Doublet of princeps and principe. Displaced English atheling (“prince”), from Middle English, from Old English æþeling (“prince”). Displaced also Middle English kinebarn (from cynebearn, literally “kinbairn”, i.e. “royal child”), alder < ealdor (“elder, leader, chief, prince, king”), and drighten < dryhten (“lord”).

verb/pɹɪns/

  1. To behave or act like a prince.

    intransitive · often · rare

  2. To transform (someone) into a prince.

    rare · transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English prince, from Anglo-Norman prince, from Latin prī̆nceps (“first head”), from prīmus (“first”) + capiō (“seize, take”). Cognate with Old English fruma (“prince, ruler”). Doublet of princeps and principe. Displaced English atheling (“prince”), from Middle English, from Old English æþeling (“prince”). Displaced also Middle English kinebarn (from cynebearn, literally “kinbairn”, i.e. “royal child”), alder < ealdor (“elder, leader, chief, prince, king”), and drighten < dryhten (“lord”).

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