price

A1 Topic:Money & Finance

Also spelled prithe

US /ˈpɹɐɪ̯s/ UK /ˈpɹaɪ̯s/ See IPA manual

noun verb Freq #1166

Meanings

1

noun
The amount of money you must pay to buy something.

The price of gasoline has gone up again.
2

noun
Something unpleasant that you must accept in order to get or do something.

Losing his free time was the price of his success.
3

verb
To set or decide the price of something.

The store priced its new phones very high.

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1 noun · the amount of money you... damage

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Forms pricedpricespricing

Derived forms bride-pricebudget-pricedcut-pricedeath-pricefixed-pricehalf-pricemicropricemidpricemispricenon-pricenonpriceoutprice

Etymology

From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

price Middle English pris Old French pretium Latin

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# price

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** ˈpɹɐɪ̯s
**IPA (UK):** ˈpɹaɪ̯s
**Frequency rank:** 1166

## Meanings
1. The amount of money you must pay to buy something.
2. Something unpleasant that you must accept in order to get or do something.
3. To set or decide the price of something.

## Examples
- The price of gasoline has gone up again.
- Losing his free time was the price of his success.
- The store priced its new phones very high.

## Derived Forms
- bride-price
- budget-priced
- cut-price
- death-price
- fixed-price
- half-price
- microprice
- midprice
- misprice
- non-price
- nonprice
- outprice

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: price
- Root: pris
- Root: pretium

## Etymology
From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

## AI Etymology
Price comes from Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc. In present-day English it covers the amount of money you must pay to buy something, something unpleasant that you must accept in order to get or do something, and to set or decide the price of something. The wider family includes derived forms such as bride-price, budget-priced, cut-price, death-price, fixed-price.

## Topics
- Money & Finance

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