Word definition: price

Etimology


From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

noun


price (plural prices)

The cost required to gain possession of something.

The cost of an action or deed.

Value; estimation; excellence; worth.

Examples


We can afford no more at such a price.

My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

I paid a high price for my folly.

Her price is far above rubies.

new treasures still, of countless price

Related words


hyponyms

cover price

list price

pool price

prime price

purchase price

reserve price

selling price

shadow price

spot price

starting price

strike price

upset price

verb


price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple 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.

(transitive, obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.

(transitive, colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.

Examples


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.

to price eggs

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