prince : Idioms & Phrases


black prince

  • noun son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376)
    Edward.
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crown prince

  • noun a male heir apparent to a throne
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lane's prince albert

  • noun apple used primarily in cooking
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port-au-prince

  • noun the capital and largest city of Haiti
    Haitian capital.
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prince albert

  • noun prince consort of Queen Victoria of England (1819-1861)
    Albert; Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel.
  • noun a man's double-breasted frock coat
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prince albert yew

  • noun small yew having attractive foliage and partially weeping branches cultivated as an ornamental; mountains of southern Chile
    Prince Albert yew; Saxe-gothea conspicua.
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prince albert's yew

  • noun small yew having attractive foliage and partially weeping branches cultivated as an ornamental; mountains of southern Chile
    Prince Albert yew; Saxe-gothea conspicua.
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prince charles

  • noun the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
    Charles.
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prince charming

  • noun a suitor who fulfills the dreams of his beloved
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prince consort

  • noun a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign
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prince edward

  • noun third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964)
    Edward Antony Richard Louis; Edward.
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prince edward island

  • noun an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; the smallest province of Canada
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prince eugene of savoy

  • noun Austrian general in the service of the Holy Roman Empire during the War of the Spanish Succession (1663-1736)
    Eugene.
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prince fumimaro konoe

  • noun Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945)
    Fumimaro Konoye; Konoe; Prince Fumimaro Konoe; Konoye; Fumimaro Konoe.
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prince fumimaro konoye

  • noun Japanese statesman who set Japan's expansionist policies and formed an alliance with Germany and Italy (1891-1945)
    Fumimaro Konoye; Konoe; Prince Fumimaro Konoe; Konoye; Fumimaro Konoe.
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prince klemens wenzel nepomuk lothar von metternich

  • noun Austrian statesman (1773-1859)
    Klemens Metternich; Metternich.
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prince of darkness

  • noun (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell
    Devil; Lucifer; the Tempter; Beelzebub; Satan; Old Nick.
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prince of smolensk

  • noun Russian field marshal who commanded the Russian opposition to Napoleon (1745-1813)
    Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov; Kutuzov.
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Prince of the blood, Prince consort, Prince of darkness

  • . See under Blood, Consort, and Darkness.
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Prince of Wales

  • noun the male heir apparent of the British sovereign
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  • the oldest son of the English sovereign.
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prince of wales heath

  • noun South African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers
    Erica perspicua; Prince of Wales heath.
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prince otto eduard leopold von bismarck

  • noun German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)
    Iron Chancellor; Otto von Bismarck; Bismarck; Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck; von Bismarck.
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prince otto von bismarck

  • noun German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)
    Iron Chancellor; Otto von Bismarck; Bismarck; Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck; von Bismarck.
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prince peter kropotkin

  • noun Russian anarchist (1842-1921)
    Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin; Kropotkin.
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prince philip

  • noun Englishman and husband of Elizabeth II (born 1921)
    Philip; Duke of Edinburgh.
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prince rupert

  • noun English leader (born in Germany) of the Royalist forces during the English Civil War (1619-1682)
    Rupert.
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Prince's feather

  • (Bot.), a name given to two annual herbs (Amarantus caudatus and Polygonum orientale), with apetalous reddish flowers arranged in long recurved panicled spikes.
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Prince's metal, Prince Rupert's metal

  • . See under Metal.
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Prince's pine

  • noun any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila
    pipsissewa.
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  • . (Bot.) See Pipsissewa.
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prince's-feather

  • noun annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
    kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate; Polygonum orientale; princess feather; prince's-feather.
  • noun tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal
    gentleman's-cane; Amaranthus cruentus; prince's-feather; Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus; Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys; purple amaranth; red amaranth.
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prince's-plume

  • noun annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
    kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate; Polygonum orientale; princess feather; prince's-feather.
  • noun perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
    Stanleya pinnata; Cleome pinnata; desert plume.
  • noun tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal
    gentleman's-cane; Amaranthus cruentus; prince's-feather; Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus; Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys; purple amaranth; red amaranth.
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Prince-Albert coat

  • a long double-breasted frock coat for men.
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prince-of-wales feather

  • noun New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea
    Leptopteris superba; Todea superba; crape fern; Prince-of-Wales fern; Prince-of-Wales feather.
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prince-of-wales fern

  • noun New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea
    Leptopteris superba; Todea superba; crape fern; Prince-of-Wales fern; Prince-of-Wales feather.
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prince-of-wales plume

  • noun New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea
    Leptopteris superba; Todea superba; crape fern; Prince-of-Wales fern; Prince-of-Wales feather.
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prince-of-wales'-heath

  • noun South African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers
    Erica perspicua; Prince of Wales heath.
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western prince's pine

  • noun Eurasian herb with white or pinkish flowers in a terminal corymb
    Chimaphila umbellata; love-in-winter; Chimaphila corymbosa.
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