Prize

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

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. 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.
2. That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
3. Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
4. A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
5. To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
6. (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.
7. (obsolete) A contest for a reward; competition.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• prizes
• prizing
• prized

Synonyms for prize

Depending on context, synonyms include prise, honor, regard, respect, esteem, idolize.

Antonyms for prize

Common opposites include disesteem, disrespect.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pillage, plunder, prise, trophy, treasure, pry.

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