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PRINCESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("princess" is a kind of...):
aristocrat; blue blood; patrician (a member of the aristocracy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "princess"):
archduchess (a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria)
crown princess (a female heir apparent to a throne)
maharanee; maharani (a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja)
princess royal (the eldest daughter of a British sovereign)
Instance hyponyms:
Dido ((Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas)
Sleeping Beauty (fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss)
Holonyms ("princess" is a member of...):
royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty (royal persons collectively)
Context examples:
But this princess, who has an infinite deal of wit and humour, set me gently on my feet upon the scrutoire, and commanded me to give his majesty an account of myself, which I did in a very few words: and Glumdalclitch who attended at the cabinet door, and could not endure I should be out of her sight, being admitted, confirmed all that had passed from my arrival at her father’s house.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He was well entertained, and in the evening was taken to the chamber next to the one where the princesses lay in their twelve beds.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The knight in whom I'm interested went back to find the pretty face, and learned that the princesses had spun themselves free and all gone and married, but one.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Our little party of travelers awakened the next morning refreshed and full of hope, and Dorothy breakfasted like a princess off peaches and plums from the trees beside the river.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I fell on my knees, and begged the honour of kissing her imperial foot; but this gracious princess held out her little finger towards me, after I was set on the table, which I embraced in both my arms, and put the tip of it with the utmost respect to my lip.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“If you will only listen,” said the fox, “it can be done. When you come to the king, and he asks for the beautiful princess, you must say, “Here she is!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
"I guess the princess gave him a posy, and opened the gate after a while," said Laurie, smiling to himself, as he threw acorns at his tutor.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But my grandfather pleaded hard, for he knew the Monkeys would drown in the river with their wings tied, and Quelala said a kind word for them also; so that Gayelette finally spared them, on condition that the Winged Monkeys should ever after do three times the bidding of the owner of the Golden Cap. This Cap had been made for a wedding present to Quelala, and it is said to have cost the princess half her kingdom.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
But it was agreed, that, if he could bring thither the beautiful princess, he should live, and have the bird and the horse given him for his own.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
But in spite of the comical red imps, sparkling elves, and the gorgeous princes and princesses, Jo's pleasure had a drop of bitterness in it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
