price

Noun (1)

price (plural prices)

1. The cost required to gain possession of something.
   • We can afford no more at such a price.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
   • My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
2. The cost of an action or deed.
   • I paid a high price for my folly.
   • It is difficult otherwise to explain the contradictions of [Chamberlain’s] policy, his failure to grasp any of the courses that were open to him. Like the mass of the people, he did not want to pay the price either of peace or of war.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn
3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
   • Her price is far above rubies.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs xxxi:10
   • new treasures still, of countless price1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J....

Verb

price (third-person singular simple present prices, present participle pricing, simple past and past participle priced)

1. (transitive) To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
2. (transitive) To find out what something costs
   • We priced a few laptops before deciding which one to buy.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
   • Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
4. (obsolete, transitive) To set a price on; to value; to prize.

   Synonyms:

   esteem, evaluate, worthen, appraise, apprise, apprize, assess, judge, prize, rate

5. (colloquial, dated, transitive) To ask the price of.
   • to price eggs

Proper noun capitalized: Price

US/pɹaɪs/

Price (countable and uncountable, plural Prices)

1. A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic], anglicized from ap Rhys.
2. An unincorporated community in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
3. A township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
4. An unincorporated community in Rusk County, Texas.
5. A city, the county seat of Carbon County, Utah.
6. A river in Utah, United States.
7. An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
8. A town in Langlade County, Wisconsin.
9. An unincorporated community in Garfield, Jackson County, Wisconsin.
10. A village municipality in La Mitis regional county municipality, Bas-Saint-Laurent region, Quebec, Canada.
11. A town in Yorke Peninsula council area, South Australia.
12. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Price County.

Noun (2) capitalized: PRICE

PRICE (uncountable)

1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation (“a common treatment method for sprained joints”).
   • Even though PRICE can help you get on the road to recovery, it only represents the first step.2023 February 15, Dr. Ann Lauren Marra, “Why the Acronym PRICE is Important to Know Before an Injury Occurs”, in Accurate Chiropractic Clinic