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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The high value or worth of something

Example:

her price is far above rubies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

worth (the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful)

Derivation:

pricey; pricy (having a high price)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)

Example:

he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection

Synonyms:

cost; monetary value; price

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

value (the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "price"):

average cost (total cost for all units bought (or produced) divided by the number of units)

differential cost; incremental cost; marginal cost (the increase or decrease in costs as a result of one more or one less unit of output)

expensiveness (the quality of being high-priced)

assessment (the market value set on assets)

inexpensiveness (the quality of being affordable)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

Example:

what price glory?

Synonyms:

cost; price; toll

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

value (the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "price"):

death toll (the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal

Example:

the cattle thief has a price on his head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

reward (the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States operatic soprano (born 1927)

Synonyms:

Leontyne Price; Mary Leontyne Price; Price

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

soprano (a female singer)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The amount of money needed to purchase something

Example:

how much is the damage?

Synonyms:

damage; price; terms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "price"):

valuation (assessed price)

support level ((stock market) the price at which a certain security becomes attractive to investors)

cash price; spot price (the current delivery price of a commodity traded in the spot market)

purchase price (the price at which something is actually purchased)

highway robbery (an exorbitant price)

factory price (price charged for goods picked up at the factory)

closing price ((stock market) the price of the last transaction completed during a day's trading session)

bid price ((stock market) the price at which a broker is willing to buy a certain security)

asking price; selling price (the price at which something is offered for sale)

Derivation:

price (ascertain or learn the price of)

price (determine the price of)

pricey; pricy (having a high price)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Cost of bribing someone

Example:

they say that every politician has a price

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("price" is a kind of...):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ascertain or learn the price of

Example:

Have you priced personal computers lately?

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "price" is one way to...):

ascertain (learn or discover with certainty)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

price (the amount of money needed to purchase something)

pricing (the evaluation of something in terms of its price)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Determine the price of

Example:

The grocer priced his wares high

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "price" is one way to...):

determine; set (fix conclusively or authoritatively)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "price"):

mark up (increase the price of)

manipulate; rig (manipulate in a fraudulent manner)

overprice (price excessively high)

underquote (offer for sale at a price lower than the market price)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

price (the amount of money needed to purchase something)

pricing (the evaluation of something in terms of its price)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I told him that we would give him a price for the stones he held—£ 1000 apiece.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I want you all to come, can't let Beth off at any price, and nobody shall worry her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And the price was splendid, even though it was for the poem of a century.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Really! Well, this is very astonishing!—no relationship!—no connection between them!—and now that livings fetch such a price!—what was the value of this?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It is a great joy to me that I have placed my feather-bed and other things of price with that worthy woman at Lyndhurst, who will now have the use of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She related the subjects of the pictures, the dimensions of the rooms, and the price of the furniture, in vain.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

So the woodman at last said he would sell Tom to the strangers for a large piece of gold, and they paid the price.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Relative dairy and egg prices are strongly associated with international variation in stunting rates, consistent with an extensive literature linking dairy consumption to linear growth in young children.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

"She must be worth it. Think what I'm giving up. Surely it is a reasonable price."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She then asked my master, “whether he was willing to sell me at a good price?”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)