price
see also: Price
Pronunciation Noun
Price
Proper noun
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see also: Price
Pronunciation Noun
price (plural prices)
- The cost required to gain possession of something.
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:
- We can afford no more at such a price.
- 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.
- new treasures still, of countless price
- Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
price (prices, present participle pricing; 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
Price
Proper noun
- Surname, anglicized from ap Rhys.
- A city/county seat in Carbon County, Utah.
- A town in Wisconsin.
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