price

A1 Topic:Economics & Markets

Also spelled prithe

US /ˈpɹɐɪ̯s/ UK /ˈpɹaɪ̯s/ See IPA manual

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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Synonyms

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

Word family

Forms pricedpricespricing

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

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Phrases (6)

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bride price
money or property given by a groom or his family to the bride's family in certain marriage traditions

Noun + noun
price competition
competition in which sellers lower prices to attract customers

Noun + noun
price tag
a label showing how much an item costs

Noun + noun
purchase price
the amount actually paid to buy something

Noun + noun
retail price
the price charged when a product is sold to its final customer

Adjective + noun
price freeze
an official decision to keep prices from changing for a period

Noun + noun

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Simplified etymology

Price came into Middle English from Old French pris, which could mean “price,” “prize,” or “praise.” The French word came from a Latin word meaning “price.” Its three meanings eventually separated into the distinct English words price, prize, and praise.

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
- Economics & Markets
- Money & Finance

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