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Princess Charming

Princess Charming is the female equivalent of Prince Charming.

Meaning of Prince Charming

Noun

Prince Charming (plural Prince Charmings or Princes Charming)

  1. A fictional heroic prince in various fairy-tales.
    • No one could have helped being won by his smile and the truly royal manner in which he saluted the crowd in passing when he was in good humor. For this reason, the voice of the people, which is never mistaken, had christened him Prince Charming, and his name always clung to him.1920, “King Bizarre And Prince Charming”, in Mary L. Booth, transl., Laboulaye's Fairy Book
  2. (broadly) A heterosexual woman's prototypical ideal romantic partner, especially but not necessarily if he embodies common characteristics of the fictional princes, such as being courageous or chivalrous.
    • She's still unmarried because she is waiting for her Prince Charming... and he may not exist.

Forms of Princess Charming

pluralPrincess Charmings
pluralPrincesses Charming

Origin of Princess Charming

By analogy with Prince Charming.

Questions about Princess Charming

What is Princess Charming the female equivalent of?
Princess Charming is the female equivalent of Prince Charming.

Words near Princess Charming in the dictionary

  1. princess carried
  2. princess carries
  3. princess carry
  4. princess carrying
  5. princess chair
  6. Princess Charming
  7. Princess Charmings
  8. princess consort
  9. princess cut
  10. princess cuts
  11. princess dress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Princess Charming (page history and authors); Prince Charming (page history and authors). 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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