prince
Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
Noun 4 meanings
Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
“He is a prince among men.”
The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.
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.”
Etymology
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”).e.
PRINCE at a glance
PRINCE has 6 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (P 3 + R 1 + I 1 + N 1 + C 3 + E 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,912 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with prince
All rhymes- SINCE7
- ONCE6
- EXPERIENCE21
- CHANCE13
- PERFORMANCE20
- EVIDENCE14
- SCIENCE11
- CONFERENCE17
- DIFFERENCE19
- INSURANCE11
- DANCE8
- DISTANCE11
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