price
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”), prob. akin to Ancient Greek περνάω (pernaō, “I sell”); compare praise, prize, precious, appraise, apprize, appreciate, depreciate, etc.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
price (plural prices)
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
- Shakespeare
- We can afford no more at such a price.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 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, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
- Shakespeare
- The cost of an action or deed.
- I paid a high price for my folly.
- Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
- Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
- Her price is far above rubies.
- Keble
- new treasures still, of countless price
- Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from price (noun)
Translations[edit]
cost required to gain possession of something
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cost of an action or deed
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Verb[edit]
price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)
- To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
- (obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
- 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
- (obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
- (colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
- to price eggs
Translations[edit]
determine or put a price on something
External links[edit]
- price in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- price in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
