prize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
homophone: pries
homophone: prise
Forms: form: prizes
Etymology: From Middle English prise, from Old French prise (“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), past participle of prendre (“to take, to capture”), from Latin prēndere (“to take, seize”); see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, surprise, etc. Doublet of prise.
Senses: examples: text: […] wherefore he now begunne
To challenge her anew, as his owne prize,
Whom formerly he had in battell wonne,
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
examples: text: Having taken all the Treasure on Board their own Ships, and plundered their Prize of every Thing elſe they either wanted or liked, they let her go; ſhe not being able to continue her Voyage, returned back: […]
ref: 1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Captain Avery, and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, page 51:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
examples: text: I fought and conquer’d, yet have lost the prize.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act I, page 5:
glosses: An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
examples: text: Cecil Rhodes […] was never tired of impressing upon one that the fact of being an Englishman was “the greatest prize in the lottery of life,” and that it was that thought which always sustained him when he was troubled.
ref: 1928, Weston Jarvis, Jottings from an Active Life, London: Heath Cranton, page 256:
glosses: That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
examples: text: I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 3:14:
glosses: Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
examples: text: Like one of two contending in a prize,
That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: A contest for a reward; competition.
synonyms: prise
glosses: A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from prize
word: acquisition prize
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word: acquisitive prize
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word: blanks and prizes
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word: booby prize
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word: consolation prize
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word: door prize
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word: eyes on the prize
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word: grand prize
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word: Nobel Prize
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word: no prize for guessing
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word: no prize pig
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word: play stupid games, win stupid prizes
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word: prize cake
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word: prize crate
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word: prize crew
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word: prize draw
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word: prizefighter
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word: prizegiver
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word: prizegiving
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word: prizeless
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word: prizelike
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word: prizelist
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word: prizeman
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word: prize money
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word: prize of war
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word: prize pool
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word: prize ring
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word: prize-taking
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word: prizewinner
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word: prize winner
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word: prize-winning
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word: prizewinning
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word: prizeworthy
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word: Pulitzer Prize
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word: purchase prize
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word: spot prize
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word: star prize
Related terms: price
prise