Synonyms for prize
- verb
- noun
- American English
Most common
reward respect set store by crown treasure appreciate value pry
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Reward — to consider highly valuable; to esteem
reward, honor US, honour UK, respect, set store by, crown, think much of, look up to, think highly of, venerate, idolize, idolise UK, revere, esteem dated, regard dated
2. Treasure
treasure, appreciate, hold dear, cherish, bedear rare
3. Value — to set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate
value, rate informal, appraise, estimate, weigh, evaluate, assess, price dated, apprise dated, valuate rare
Noun
Other
sweepstakes, prix, catch, lot
Definitions
- v. 1
To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
- v. 2
To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
- n. 1
That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
- n. 2
Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
Related words
- Word family
- price prizable
- Phrases
- purchase prize prize crate prize money prize ring grand prize star prize acquisition prize acquisitive prize
- Other spellings
- prise UK
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To prize is to set a high value on for something more than merely commercial reasons. One may value some object, as a picture, beyond all price, as a family heirloom, or may prize it as the gift of an esteemed friend, without at all appreciating its artistic merit or commercial value.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- crown They met the crown princes of Sweden and Denmark.
- reward The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- treasure The child was the national treasure of the nation.
By length
- 3 letters
- lot1, pry1
- 4 letters
- rate1, gain1, palm1, prix1, loot1, swag, meed
- 5 letters
- value2, price1, award2, catch1, honor2, crown1, jimmy2, weigh1, spoil1, lever2, booty2
- 6 letters
- honour2, regard2, reward2, trophy2, assess2, esteem2, revere2, bedear
- 7 letters
- respect2, cherish2, plunder2, pillage2, idolize3, apprise2, idolise, guerdon, plaudit2, valuate
- 8 letters
- estimate3, treasure2, evaluate4, appraise2, venerate3
- 10 letters
- appreciate4
- 11 letters
- sweepstakes2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (value2 = 2 syllables).