premium
/ˈpɹiː.miː.əm/
premium adjective: superior in quality; higher in price or value.
Adjective
premium (not comparable)
Noun
premium (plural premiums or premia)
- A prize or award.
- Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
- A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
- At first I wrote it off to the simpler protocols of grandparenthood, with its premium on uncomplicated gestures of generosity and love.2009 July 19, Ariel Sabar, “A Time to Put Aside the Armor”, in The New York Times
- The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
- (Of course, if an insured dies during the grace period, the unpaid annual premium or instalment thereof is past due and therefore is deducted from the death benefit.)1951, State Farm Life Insurance Company, Life Agents Handbook, page 62
- Notice that these premia would exist even in a world of risk-neutral lenders if there were identifiable classes of nonrepaying borrowers.1986, Michael P. Claudon, World Debt Crisis: International Lending on Trial, page 184
- An unusually high value.
- The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.
- Antonyms:
- discount
premium meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
premium in Hindi
- the amount to be paid for an insurance policy
- प्रीमियम prīmiyam
premium in Tamil
- முனைமம், ஊக்க ஊதியம், தவணைக் கட்டணம், பரிசில், கட்டணம், மதிப்பு எச்சம்
premium in Marathi
- प्रीमियम, प्रिमियम
premium in Urdu
- انعام
More languagesFewer languages
- premium in Bengali
- অধিহার, পুরস্কার, দান
- premium in Telugu
- పెచ్చు peccu
- premium in Malayalam
- ഇൻഷ്വറൻസ് വരി, പാരിതോഷികം, പ്രതിഫലം, ഔദാര്യം
- premium in Kannada
- ವಿಮೆಯ ಕಂತು, ಪ್ರೀಮಿಯಂ, ಮುನ್ಗಾಪಿನ ಕಂತು, ಉತ್ತೇಜಕ ಸಂಭಾವನೆ
- premium in Punjabi
- ਪ੍ਰੀਮੀਅਮ
- premium in Gujarati
- પ્રીમિયમ, પ્રિમીયમ, પ્રિમિયમ
- premium in Odia
- ପ୍ରିମିଯ଼ମ୍, ପ୍ରିମିଯ଼ମ
- premium in Nepali
- प्रिमियम, प्रीमियम, प्रिमिअम
- premium in Tagalog
- prima
- premium in Arabic
- إصدار مُكَلف, فاخر
- premium in Indonesian
- premi
Examples of premium in a sentence
- He received a login OTP after typing his phone number for premium subscription to a streaming service.
- The loan shark added another 10% as the risk premium for an especially dubious borrower.
- My workplace places a high premium on team spirit.
Antonyms of premium
Forms of premium
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | praemium |
| alternative form (obsolete) | præmium |
| Noun | |
| plural | premiums |
| plural | premia |
Origin of premium
From Latin praemium (“prize”).
Words formed from premium
- at a premium
- bond premium
- buyer's premium
- call premium
- college wage premium
- freemium
- greenium
- green premium
- nonpremium
- Poverty premium
- premium bond
- premium economy
- premiumisation
- premiumization
- premiumize
- premium outlet
- premium-rate telephone number
- pupil premium
- put a premium on
- risk premium
- semipremium
- subpremium
- superpremium
- time premium
- time value premium
- ultrapremium
- union wage premium
- value premium
- wage premium
Phrases with premium
Questions about premium
- What does premium mean?
- Premium means superior in quality; higher in price or value.
- What is premium in Hindi?
- Premium in Hindi is प्रीमियम (prīmiyam). See Premium meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is premium?
- Premium can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce premium?
- Premium is pronounced /ˈpɹiː.miː.əm/.
Words near premium in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: premium (page history and authors); premium (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); premium (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); premium (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); premium (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); పెచ్చు (Telugu) (page history and authors); premium (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); premium (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); premium (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); premium (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); premium (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); premium (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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