Prize
That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
A contest for a reward; competition.
A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
Estimation; valuation.
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Prize Quotations
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
James Russell Lowell
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Katharine Hepburn
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Richard P. Feynman
I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
Hedy Lamarr
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
Glenn Beck
I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.
Shelby Foote
Prize Translations
prize in Dutch is prijs, premie
prize in Finnish is palkinto
prize in German is Belohnung, Ehrenpreis, Preis
prize in Italian is sorte, costo
prize in Latin is diligo, praemium
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