/pɹaɪs/, /pɹɑjs/, /pɹʌɪs/
OriginFrom 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.
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
“We can afford no more at such a price.”
“My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, ”
- The cost of an action or deed.
“I paid a high price for my folly.”
“It is difficult otherwise to explain the contradictions of [Chamberlain’s] policy, his failure to grasp any of the courses that were open to him. Like the mass of the people, he did not want to pay th”
- Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
“Her price is far above rubies.”
“new treasures still, of countless price”
- abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountableAcronym of protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation (“a common treatment method for sprained joints”).
“Even though PRICE can help you get on the road to recovery, it only represents the first step.”
- transitiveTo determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
- obsolete, transitiveTo pay the price of; to make reparation for.
“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.”
- obsolete, transitiveTo set a price on; to value; to prize.
- colloquial, dated, transitiveTo ask the price of.
- countable, uncountableA surname from Welsh in turn originating as a patronymic, anglicized from ap Rhys.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
- countable, uncountableA township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Rusk County, Texas.
- countable, uncountableA city, the county seat of Carbon County, Utah.
- countable, uncountableA river in Utah, United States.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
- countable, uncountableA town in Langlade County, Wisconsin.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Garfield, Jackson County, Wisconsin.
- countable, uncountableA village municipality in La Mitis regional county municipality, Bas-Saint-Laurent region, Quebec, Canada.
- countable, uncountableA town in Yorke Peninsula council area, South Australia.
- abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountableEllipsis of Price County.
Formsprices(plural) · prize(alternative, obsolete) · prices(present, singular, third-person) · pricing(participle, present) · priced(participle, past) · priced(past) · Prices(plural)