Prize

Noun

 * 1) That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
 * 2)  Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., 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) A contest for a reward; competition.
 * 7) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.

Derived terms

 * booby prize
 * consolation prize
 * prize-winner
 * prize-winning
 * pushing prize

Verb

 * 1) To consider something highly valuable.
 * 2) To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
 * 3)  To compete in a prizefight.

Thesaurus
Academy Award, Nobel Prize, Oscar, accolade, accord respect to, admire, adore, aim, ambition, apotheosize, appraise, appreciate, apprize, arch, ascribe importance to, assay, assess, award, bar, barrow, beam, best, blackmail, boast, booby prize, boodle, boom, booty, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, calculate, calibrate, caliper, call, cant hook, carrot, catch, cenotaph, champion, check a parameter, cherish, choice, chosen, class, claw bar, column, compute, consolation prize, crank, cream, cromlech, cross, crow, crowbar, cup, cyclolith, dearest wish, dearly love, defer to, deify, desideration, desideratum, desire, dial, diamond, divide, dividend, dolmen, elect, elite, entertain respect for, esteem, estimate, evaluate, exalt, excellent, fair-trade, fat, fathom, favor, figure, find, first prize, first-rate, flower, footstone, for the best, forbidden fruit, form an estimate, fulcrumage, gain, gauge, gem, get a foothold, get leverage, give an appreciation, glimmering goal, goal, godsend, golden vision, good thing, graduate, graft, grave, gravestone, greatest, guerdon, guess, handpicked, handspike, haul, headstone, hero-worship, hoarstone, hold dear, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, hope, hot goods, idolize, inscription, iron crow, jackpot, jewel, jimmy, lever, leverage, limb, lodestone, look up to, loot, love to distraction, magnet, make an estimation, make much of, mark, marker, marlinespike, matchless, mausoleum, measure, meed, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, mensurate, mete, meter, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, nonesuch, nonpareil, obelisk, obituary, optimal, optimum, outrigger, outstanding, pace, paragon, paramount, pearl, peavey, pedal, peerless, perks, perquisite, pick, picked, pickings, pillar, pinch bar, plaque, plum, plumb, plunder, pork barrel, premium, price, pride, pride and joy, prime, probe, pry, public till, public trough, purse, pyramid, quantify, quantize, queen, quintessence, quintessential, quote a price, rank, rate, rate highly, receipts, reckon, regard, reliquary, remembrance, respect, revere, reverence, reward, ribbon, ripping bar, rostral column, second prize, select, set store by, shaft, shrine, size, size up, sound, span, spar, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stakes, stealings, stela, step, stolen goods, stone, stupa, superior, superlative, supreme, surpassing, survey, swag, sweepstakes, tablet, take, take a reading, temptation, testimonial, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, think highly of, think much of, think well of, till, tomb, tombstone, top, tope, treadle, treasure, triangulate, trophy, trouvaille, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, valorize, valuate, value, venerate, very best, wedge, weigh, windfall, winner, winnings, wish, worship, wrecking bar

Etymology 1
< prise: <  prise: <  prise: < pris:, past participle of prendre: <  prendere:; see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, suprise, etc.

Pronunciation




Etymology 2
< prysen: <  priser: < pris: <  pretium:; see price. Compare praise, appraise, apprize.

Noun

 * Catalan: botí
 * Dutch:
 * Japanese: 捕獲物


 * Russian:, добыча
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 * Japanese: 戦利品


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 * Arabic: جائزة
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 * Chinese: 奖品 (jiǎngpǐn)
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 * Estonian: auhind
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 * Russian:, приз
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 * Estonian: tasu


 * Japanese: 珠玉


 * Dutch:
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 * Japanese: てこ;, 梃子



Verb

 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: väärtustama
 * French: estimer


 * Japanese: 重んじる
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 * Dutch:, openwrikken
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 * Japanese: こじ開ける