prince
/pɹɪns/ noun A1- Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person. · He is a prince among men.
- The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
- A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch.
- A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire. · Prince Louis de Broglie won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack.
- The mushroom Agaricus augustus.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Rohana.
Plural princes
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“True,” replied the marquise, without wincing in the slightest degree at the tragic remembrance thus called up; “but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the staunchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator.”
“How much do I owe this gracious prince!
A PRINCE had some Monkeys trained to dance.
When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said: “O you most detestable of animals!
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