prize
prize1 definition
prize (prīz)
transitive verb prized, prizing priz′·ing
- Obsolete to set a value upon; price
- to value highly; esteem
Etymology: ME pris: see price
noun
- something offered or given to the winner of a contest
- something won in a game of chance, lottery, etc.
- a reward, premium, or the like
- anything worth striving for; any enviable or highly valued possession
- Archaic a contest or match
adjective
- that has received a prize a prize novel
- worthy of a prize; first-rate
- given as a prize
prize2 definition
prize (prīz)
noun
- Obsolete the act of capturing
- something taken by force; esp., a captured enemy ship and its cargo
- Dialectal
- a tool for prying; lever
- leverage
Etymology: ME prise, a taking hold < OFr, a taking < fem. pp. of prendre, to take < L prehendere: see prehensile
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