prize
Definitions
- prize, award (honour or reward)
- That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
- prize (that which may be won)
- Something seized by force or taken as booty, especially an enemy ship and its cargo captured at sea during wartime.
- 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.
- premium (bonus paid in addition to normal payments)
- To move or force with a lever; pry: prized open the antique chest.
- 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.
- first-person singular present indicative of premiar
- Chiefly Southern US Something used as a lever or for prying.
- That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
- Nautical. Goods or property seized unlawfully, especially by a victor in wartime:booty, loot, pillage, plunder, spoil (used in plural).
- Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
- to value highly. He prized my friendship above everything else. skat يُقَدِّر ценя prezar cenit si schätzen værdsætte εκτιμώ ιδιαίτερα apreciar, valorar kalliks pidama ارزش زیاد قائل شدن arvostaa attacher beaucoup de prix à לְהַעֲרִיך מְאוֹד महत्त्व देना nagyra becsül sangat menghargai meta apprezzare, stimare 重んじる 높이 평가하다 vertinti augstu vērtēt menghargai waarderensette pris på, skatte (wysoko) sobie cenić ډير ارزښت وركول prezar a preţui высоко ценить ceniť si ceniti ceniti värdera, värdesät...
- A contest for a reward; competition.
- A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
- Something offered or won as an award for superiority or victory, as in a contest or competition.
- Something worth striving for; a highly desirable possession.
- Offered or given as a prize: a prize cup.
- Given a prize, or likely to win a prize: a prize cow.
- Worthy of a prize; first-class: our prize azaleas.
Equivalents
Examples
“[…] wherefore he now begunne To challenge⟳ her anew, as his owne prize, Whom formerly he had in battell wonne,”
“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: […]”
“I fought and conquer’d, yet have⟳ lost the prize.”
“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.”
“I press⟳ toward the mark⟳ for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
“Like⟳ one of two contending in a prize, That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes […]”
“My prizes – for a head is thirty five Guineas – As far as the Knees seventy – and for a whole-length one hundred and fifty.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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