price

English Online Dictionary. What means price‎? What does price mean?

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: -aɪs
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: prīs, IPA^(key): /pɹaɪs/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /pɹɑjs/
• (Canadian raising) IPA^(key): /pɹʌɪs/

Noun

price (plural prices)

1. The cost required to gain possession of something.
2. The cost of an action or deed.

3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

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Descendants

• → Irish: praghas

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Verb

price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)

1. (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
4. (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.

Derived terms

• budget-priced

Translations

Further reading

• “price”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “price”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Cripe, recip.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic притъча (pritŭča).

Noun

price f (plural prici)

1. (dated) disagreement, argument

Declension