prize
adjective/praɪz/
/praɪz/
[only before noun]- (especially of an animal, a flower or a vegetable) good enough to win a prize in a competition
- prize cattle
- being a very good example of its kind
- a prize student
- He's a prize specimen of the human race!
- (informal) She's a prize idiot (= very silly).
Word OriginMiddle English: the noun, a variant of price; the verb (originally in the sense ‘estimate the value of’) from Old French pris-, stem of preisier ‘to praise, appraise’, from late Latin pretiare, from Latin pretium ‘price’.
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