prince | |
1. n. (now archaic, or historical) A (male) ruler, a sovereign; a king, monarch. | |
2. n. (obsolete) A female monarch. | |
3. n. Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person. | |
He is a prince among men. | |
4. n. The (male) ruler or head of a principality. | |
5. n. A male member of a royal family other than the ruler; especially (in the United Kingdom) the son or grandson of the monarch. | |
6. n. 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. | |
7. n. The mushroom Agaricus augustus. | |
8. n. A type of court card used in tarot cards, the equivalent of the jack. | |