price
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɪs
- (UK, US): enPR: prīs, IPA(key): /pɹaɪs/
- (Canadian raising): IPA(key): /pɹʌɪs/
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NounEdit
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, in 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
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DescendantsEdit
- → Irish: praghas
TranslationsEdit
cost required to gain possession of something
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cost of an action or deed
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VerbEdit
price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)
- (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
- (transitive, 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:
- (transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
- (transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
- to price eggs
TranslationsEdit
determine or put a price on something
Further readingEdit
- price in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- price in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.