Definition of Prize

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Definition of Prize

Prize

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

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.

An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.

That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.

Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.

A contest for a reward; competition.

A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.

To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.

To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.

To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.

Estimation; valuation.

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Prize Quotations

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken

In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Richard P. Feynman

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
Norman Mailer

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
Alfred Nobel

Prize Translations

prize in Dutch is prijs, premie
prize in Finnish is palkinto
prize in German is Belohnung, Ehrenpreis, Preis
prize in Italian is sorte, costo
prize in Latin is diligo, praemium

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