Definitions for prize

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prize prize

Spelling: [prahyz]

IPA: /praɪz/

Prize is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in prize (eiprz).

Definitions for prize

noun

1. a reward for victory or superiority, as in a contest or competition.
2. something that is won in a lottery or the like.
3. anything striven for, worth striving for, or much valued.
4. something seized or captured, especially an enemy's ship and cargo captured at sea in wartime.
5. the act of taking or capturing, especially a ship at sea.
6. Archaic. a contest or match.
7. leverage.
8. a lever.

adjective

1. having won a prize:
2. worthy of a prize.
3. given or awarded as a prize.

verb (used with object)

1. to value or esteem highly.
2. to estimate the worth or value of.
3. pry2 .

Origin of prize

1250-1300; in senses referring to something seized, continuing Middle English prise something captured, a seizing Middle French Latin pre(hē)nsa, noun use of feminine past participle of pre(h

Examples for prize

Rather gain one prize from the Choragus than ten from the Gymnasiarch.

The prize was bestowed on him who ran the course without extinguishing his torch.

Every other year Adam Shankman was doing a Step Up movie and we could give them a role in that as a prize.

Tibbets and Wilson had gone with their old prize, and anything but a prize did she prove to me.

And The prize Is Death, a cartoon by Albert Levering, attacks an epidemic of reckless driving.

I have been deeply puzzled and much perturbed over this prize contest.

While the winners will take home the prize money and title, the eliminated contestants can hardly be considered losers.

The prize will not be replaced if lost, mutilated, or stolen.

I would rather gain one prize from the Choragus, than ten from the Gymnasiarch.

So I remember when Altman won the prize, he went up and said some version of, “Too little, too late.”