- 1(usually ironic) if you say that an amount of money is princely, you are usually saying the opposite, meaning that it is not very large I bought a bike for the princely sum of $20!
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- 2(old-fashioned) (formal) very grand; generous princely buildings a princely gift
- 3connected with a prince; like a prince
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