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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishprise, fromOld Frenchprise(“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), past participle ofprendre(“to take, to capture”), fromLatinprēndere(“to take, seize”); seeprehend. Compareprison,apprise,comprise,enterprise,purprise,reprisal,surprise, etc.Doublet ofprise.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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prize (pluralprizes)

  1. That which is taken from another; somethingcaptured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
  2. (military, nautical) Anything captured by abelligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as avessel.
    • 1724,Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of CaptainAvery, and His Crew”, inA General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […],→OCLC,page51:
      Having taken all the Treasure on Board their own Ships, and plundered theirPrize of every Thing elſe they either wanted or liked, they let her go; ſhe not being able to continue her Voyage, returned back:[…]
  3. Anhonour orreward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as aninducement to, or reward of, effort.
  4. That which may be won by chance, as in alottery.
    • 1928,Weston Jarvis,Jottings from an Active Life‎[1], London: Heath Cranton, page256:
      Cecil Rhodes[…] was never tired of impressing upon one that the fact of being an Englishman was “the greatestprize in the lottery of life,” and that it was that thought which always sustained him when he was troubled.
  5. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or inprospect.
  6. (obsolete) Acontest for a reward;competition.
  7. Alever; apry; also, the hold of a lever.
    Synonym:prise
Usage notes
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Do not confuse withprice.

Derived terms
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Terms derived fromprize
Translations
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something captured
anything captured using the rights of war
honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest
that which may be won by chance
anything worth striving for
competition
lever
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishprysen, borrowed fromOld Frenchpriser(“to set a price or value on, esteem, value”), frompris(“price”), fromLatinpretium(“price, value”), whenceprice; see alsopraise, a doublet. Compareappraise,apprize.

Verb

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prize (third-person singular simple presentprizes,present participleprizing,simple past and past participleprized)

  1. To consider highly valuable; toesteem.
  2. (obsolete) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
  3. To move with alever; to force up or open; toprise orpry.
  4. (obsolete) To compete in aprizefight.
Derived terms
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Translations
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to consider something highly valuable
to move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry

Etymology 3

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Adjective

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prize (notcomparable)

  1. Havingwon aprize;award-winning.
    aprize vegetable
  2. First-rate;exceptional.
    He was aprize fool.

Etymology 4

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Alternative forms.

Noun

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prize (pluralprizes)

  1. Obsolete form ofprice.[16th–19th c.]
    • 1777,Joshua Reynolds, edited byJohn Ingamells andJohn Edgcumbe,The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published2000, page69:
      Myprizes – for a head is thirty five Guineas – As far as the Knees seventy – and for a whole-length one hundred and fifty.

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