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A female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter.
* 1872 , George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
A woman or girl who excels in a given field or class.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.12:
The wife of a prince; the female ruler of a principality.
A young girl; used as a term of endearment.
(derogatory, chiefly, US) A young girl or woman considered vain, spoiled or selfish; a prima donna.
A tinted crystal marble used in children's games.
A type of court card in the Tarot pack, coming between the 10 and the prince (Jack).
A female lemur.
*, I.42:
*:Truely, to see our Princes all alone, sitting at their meat, beleagred round with so many talkers, whisperers, and gazing beholders, unknowne what they are or whence they come, I have often rather pittied than envied them.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin, 2010, p.600:
*:By his last years Erasmus realized that princes like Henry VIII and François I had deceived him in their elaborate negotiations for universal peace, but his belief in the potential of princely power for good remained undimmed.
*2009 , (Hilary Mantel), Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate, 2010, p.411:
*:If Henry does not fully trust him, is it surprising? A prince is alone: in his council chamber, in his bedchamber, and finally in Hell's antechamber, stripped – as Harry Percy said – for Judgment.
(obsolete) A female monarch.
*Camden
*:Queen Elizabeth, a prince admirable above her sex.
Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
:He is a prince among men.
The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
*2011 , Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian , 26 June:
*:He is the prince who never grew up – a one-time playboy and son of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco.
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.
*2011 , Katharine Whitehorn, The Guardian , 16 October:
*:Conspiracy theories are always enticing: one I was involved with in the 50s was about Mayerling, the 19th-century Austrian scandal involving a prince ’s lover who died in dodgy circumstances in a hunting lodge.
A common name of the mushroom Agaricus augustus .
A type of court card used in Tarot cards, the equivalent to the Jack.
Prince is a coordinate term of princess.
Prince is a related term of princess.
As nouns the difference between princess and prince
is that princess is a female member of a royal family other than a queen, especially a daughter or granddaughter while prince is a (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch.As proper nouns the difference between princess and prince
is that princess is the title of a princess while Prince is the title of a prince.princess
English
(wikipedia princess)Noun
(es)- She did not cry long, however, for she was as brave as could be expected of a princess of her age.
- And running all with greedie ioyfulnesse / To faire Irena, at her feet did fall, / And her adored with due humblenesse, / As their true Liege and Princesse naturall [...].
- Princess''' Grace was the '''Princess of Monaco.
- You're a real princess .