prize
noun
- award to be given to a person, a group of people, or an organization to recognise and reward actions or achievements
verb
- to value highly, appreciate
adjective
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adj
- Having won a prize; award-winning.
“a prize vegetable”
- First-rate; exceptional.
“He was a prize fool.”
noun
Etymology: Alternative forms.
- Obsolete form of price.
“My prizes – for a head is thirty five Guineas – As far as the Knees seventy – and for a whole-length one hundred and fifty.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English prysen, borrowed from Old French preisier (“to set a price or value on, esteem, value”), from pris (“price”), from Latin pretium (“price, value”), whence price; see also praise, a doublet. Compare appraise, apprize.
- To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
“[…] I Beyond all limit of what else i’ the world Do love, prize, honour you.”
“I pris’d your Person, but your Crown disdain.”
- To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
“[…] no life, I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,”
“[…] a goodly price that I was prized at.”
- To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
“‘Find some other black boxes to prize open.’”
- To compete in a prizefight.