Prize

/ˈpɹaɪ̯z/ · noun

Meaning

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power..

Definitions by Sense

1. That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
2. (military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
3. An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
4. That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
5. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
6. (obsolete) A contest for a reward; competition.
7. A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
8. To consider highly valuable; to esteem.

Example Sentences

[…] wherefore he now begunne To challenge her anew, as his owne prize, Whom formerly he had in battell wonne,

Having taken all the Treasure on Board their own Ships, and plundered their Prize of every Thing elſe they either wanted or liked, they let her go; ſhe not being able to continue her Voyage, returned back: […]

I fought and conquer’d, yet have lost the prize.

Cecil Rhodes […] was never tired of impressing upon one that the fact of being an Englishman was “the greatest prize in the lottery of life,” and that it was that thought which always sustained him when he was troubled.

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Like one of two contending in a prize, That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes […]

[…] I Beyond all limit of what else i’ the world Do love, prize, honour you.

I pris’d your Person, but your Crown disdain.

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• prizes
• prizing
• prized

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