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price
English
Alternative forms
- prize (obsolete) [16th–19th c.]
Etymology
From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?s
- (UK, US): enPR: pr?s, IPA(key): /p?a?s/
- (Canadian raising): IPA(key): /p???s/
Noun
price (plural prices)
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
- The cost of an action or deed.
- Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10
- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs xxxi. 10
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Descendants
- ? Irish: praghas
Translations
Verb
price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)
- (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
- (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
- Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
- (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
- (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
- to price eggs
Derived terms
- budget-priced
Translations
Further reading
- price in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- price in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Cripe, recip.
Latin
Noun
price
- ablative singular of prex
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pricey
English
Alternative forms
- pricy
Etymology
From price +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?a?si/
Adjective
pricey (comparative pricier or more pricey, superlative priciest or most pricey)
- (informal) Expensive, dear.
Derived terms
- priceyness
Translations
Anagrams
- Piercy
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