--- title: P — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 58 description: The 1498 words of the English dictionary under P, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / P # P — The English dictionary · page 58 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · [E](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/E/) · [F](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/) · [G](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/) · [H](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/) · [I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/) · [J](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/J/) · [K](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/K/) · [L](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/L/) · [M](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/) · [N](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/) · [O](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/O/) · [P](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) · [Q](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Q/) · [R](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/R/) · [S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) · [T](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/T/) · [U](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/U/) · [V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/V/) · [W](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/) · [X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/X/) · [Y](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Y/) · [Z](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Z/) [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) … [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/57/) **58** [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/59/) … [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/77/) **priest** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A priest is a person whose job is to lead religious services and look after people in a church or temple.[↗](../../priest/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In some religions a priest makes special offerings or prayers for people.[↗](../../priest/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The priest welcomed everyone to the church.[↗](../../priest/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Father O'Brien is the priest at our local church.[↗](../../priest/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The priest blessed the new baby.[↗](../../priest/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In ancient Egypt priests worked in the temples.[↗](../../priest/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The priest read from the Bible.[↗](../../priest/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My uncle is training to become a priest.[↗](../../priest/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · It was the captive Christian priest.[↗](../../priest/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it is most holy.[↗](../../priest/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.6.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priest/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.[↗](../../priest/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.31.31, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priest/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD.[↗](../../priest/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.5.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priest/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And of the priests: Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin; (Writings 1CH.9.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priest/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin, (Writings NEH.11.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priest/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · He leadeth priests away stripped, and overthroweth the mighty.[↗](../../priest/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.12.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priest/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **priestess** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A woman who serves a god or goddess in a temple and leads the religious ceremonies.[↗](../../priestess/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Io was a priestess of Hera.[↗](../../priestess/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The priestesses kept the fire burning day and night.[↗](../../priestess/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Only a priestess could enter the temple.[↗](../../priestess/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **priesthood** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (church) The job and calling of being a priest.[↗](../../priesthood/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (church) All the priests of a church or religion together.[↗](../../priesthood/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (Bible, church) Christians believe in «the priesthood of all believers»: every believer can speak to God directly.[↗](../../priesthood/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My uncle decided to enter the priesthood.[↗](../../priesthood/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He trained for the priesthood for six years.[↗](../../priesthood/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · In the Bible, Aaron and his sons held the priesthood.[↗](../../priesthood/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The priesthood of the church met to pray.[↗](../../priesthood/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Some churches allow women in the priesthood and some do not.[↗](../../priesthood/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She felt called to the priesthood when she was young.[↗](../../priesthood/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · and that He hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and will ye seek the priesthood also?[↗](../../priesthood/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.16.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priesthood/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, that they may keep their priesthood; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.'[↗](../../priesthood/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.3.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priesthood/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · and it shall be unto him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.'[↗](../../priesthood/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.25.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priesthood/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.[↗](../../priesthood/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.13.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priesthood/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · These sought their register, that is, the genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.[↗](../../priesthood/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.2.62, JPS 1917)[↗](../../priesthood/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **priestly** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Having to do with priests, or like a priest.[↗](../../priestly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") **prim** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Very neat, proper and strict about manners; too careful about rules and never untidy.[↗](../../prim/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She sat prim and straight with her hands in her lap.[↗](../../prim/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · "Don't be so prim," laughed the boy.[↗](../../prim/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The prim old lady frowned at the muddy children.[↗](../../prim/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **primal** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* First, earliest, from the very beginning.[↗](../../primal/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* is '' the voices from nothing."[↗](../../primal/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") The Ten Sephiruth of the Kabalah are the " Ten Primary Emanations from the Divine Source " which are the primal forces leading to all manifestation upon every plane in succession.[↗](../../primal/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../primal/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **primarily** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Mainly, or in the first place; most of all.[↗](../../primarily/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") **primary** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Primary means first in importance; main.[↗](../../primary/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Primary means first in order or time.[↗](../../primary/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A primary school is the first school children go to, for about ages five to eleven.[↗](../../primary/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* The primary colours are the colours that can be mixed to make many others.[↗](../../primary/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My little brother started primary school this term.[↗](../../primary/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Red, yellow and blue are the primary colours in painting.[↗](../../primary/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mix two primary colours to make a secondary colour.[↗](../../primary/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our primary aim is to keep everyone safe.[↗](../../primary/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A diary from the war is a primary source.[↗](../../primary/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grass is a primary food for cows.[↗](../../primary/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · And on yet another level, it refers to the physical body, the primary metaphorical sense in which the term is encountered in the SY.[↗](../../primary/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../primary/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Proba- tion, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator trieth all righteous persons.[↗](../../primary/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../primary/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Probation, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator (blessed be He) trieth all righteous persons.[↗](../../primary/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../primary/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **primate** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A primate is a mammal belonging to the group that includes humans, apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, gibbons), monkeys and lemurs; primates usually have hands that can grasp, forward-facing eyes and big brains.[↗](../../primate/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (church) A primate is the most senior bishop of a country or region; for example, the Archbishop of Canterbury is called the Primate of All England.[↗](../../primate/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Humans, monkeys and apes are all primates.[↗](../../primate/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Primates have hands that can grip things.[↗](../../primate/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Lemurs are primates that live only in Madagascar.[↗](../../primate/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Many primates live in groups and look after their young for a long time.[↗](../../primate/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Chimpanzees are the primates most closely related to humans.[↗](../../primate/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists study primates to learn how they use tools.[↗](../../primate/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · (church) The Archbishop of Armagh is the Primate of All Ireland.[↗](../../primate/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Gorillas are the largest primates.[↗](../../primate/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **prime** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* In maths, a prime number is a whole number greater than 1 that can only be divided exactly by 1 and itself.[↗](../../prime/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Prime means main or most important.[↗](../../prime/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Prime means of the best quality.[↗](../../prime/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Someone's prime is the time when they are strongest or best.[↗](../../prime/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To prime something means to get it ready, for example to put a first coat on wood before painting.[↗](../../prime/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* 7 is a prime number because only 1 and 7 divide it.[↗](../../prime/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Is 9 prime?[↗](../../prime/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") No, 3 × 3 = 9.[↗](../../prime/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The prime factors of 12 are 2, 2 and 3.[↗](../../prime/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The Prime Minister spoke on the news.[↗](../../prime/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · This is a prime example of good teamwork.[↗](../../prime/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The athlete was in her prime.[↗](../../prime/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Prime the wall before you paint it.[↗](../../prime/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · 2 is the only even prime number.[↗](../../prime/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The Witch-Queen is put to death, and Nikita lives happily as the King's Prime Minister.[↗](../../prime/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **primer** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A primer is a first, easy book for learning to read or to count, or a short book that teaches the basics of a subject.[↗](../../primer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Primer is also a first coat of paint that helps the top paint stick.[↗](../../primer/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A primer is also a small part that sets off a firework or bullet.[↗](../../primer/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The old arithmetic primer has 100 problems.[↗](../../primer/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He bought a can of primer.[↗](../../primer/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The primer costs 12 dollars.[↗](../../primer/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Children long ago learned to read from a primer.[↗](../../primer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Paint the fence with primer before the red paint.[↗](../../primer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · This book is a primer on how volcanoes work.[↗](../../primer/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Let the primer dry before the next coat.[↗](../../primer/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **primeval** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Very, very old; from the earliest times of the world, long before people lived.[↗](../../primeval/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") (A rather grand word.).[↗](../../primeval/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Primeval forests grew here before anyone lived on the Earth.[↗](../../primeval/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The gods of old were called primeval.[↗](../../primeval/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Dinosaurs roamed the primeval world.[↗](../../primeval/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · These three mothers enclose a mighty mystery, most occult and most marvelous, sealed as with six rings, and from them proceed primeval Fire, Water, and Air; these are subsequently differentiated into male and female.[↗](../../primeval/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../primeval/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **primitive** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Very simple and basic, not advanced: «a primitive tool made of stone».[↗](../../primitive/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Belonging to an early stage of development, long ago: «primitive life forms».[↗](../../primitive/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (art) A painter or style that is simple and untrained-looking on purpose or by nature.[↗](../../primitive/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (old, now hurtful) Once used about peoples or cultures thought to be «less advanced»; today this is seen as unfair and rude.[↗](../../primitive/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Early humans made primitive tools from flint.[↗](../../primitive/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Bacteria are among the most primitive living things.[↗](../../primitive/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The hut was primitive, with no water or electricity.[↗](../../primitive/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · His first robot was primitive but it could move forward.[↗](../../primitive/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Primitive fish had no jaws.[↗](../../primitive/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We camped in primitive conditions on the island.[↗](../../primitive/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Calling another people «primitive» is unfair; their ways are just different.[↗](../../primitive/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · They were at last blown on shore, for navigation was primitive in those days.[↗](../../primitive/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · 3) Primitive water emanated from the air.[↗](../../primitive/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../primitive/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · For an illustration may serve the twenty-two elementary substances by the primitive substance of Aleph (א).[↗](../../primitive/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../primitive/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · For an illustration may serve the twenty-two elementary substances by the primitive substance of Aleph \[25\] (א).[↗](../../primitive/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../primitive/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **primordial** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Existing from the very beginning of time; first and original.[↗](../../primordial/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Note the order in which the primordial elements • were produced.[↗](../../primordial/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../primordial/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In this interpretation, they are ten elemental entities or properties which bind or restrain primordial תֹּהוּ tohu, 'chaos, void, waste(land)' \[Genesis 1:2\], allowing structure and order to exist in creation.[↗](../../primordial/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../primordial/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Eighth Path is called Absolute or Perfect, because it is the means of the primordial, which has no root by which it can cleave, nor rest, except in the hidden places Of GEDULAH.[↗](../../primordial/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../primordial/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **primrose** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A primrose is a small wild plant with pale yellow flowers that bloom early in spring, common in Britain and Europe.[↗](../../primrose/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Primrose, or primrose yellow, is a soft, pale yellow colour.[↗](../../primrose/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (a name) Primrose can be a girl's name.[↗](../../primrose/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Primroses were flowering along the hedge in March.[↗](../../primrose/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The woods were full of pale yellow primroses.[↗](../../primrose/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We painted the bedroom primrose yellow.[↗](../../primrose/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Please don't pick wild primroses; leave them for the bees.[↗](../../primrose/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Primrose is one of the first flowers of spring.[↗](../../primrose/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My aunt's cat is called Primrose.[↗](../../primrose/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The primrose has a ring of five soft petals.[↗](../../primrose/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Now and then he stooped to pluck a violet, or a primrose, or a yellow but-ter-cup.[↗](../../primrose/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **primus** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* A Latin word meaning "first"; "Tomus Primus" means "the first volume.".[↗](../../primus/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* In Tomus Primus of "Artis Cabalisticæ hoc est reconditæ theologiæ et philosophiæ scriptorum."[↗](../../primus/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") Basileæ 1587, is found "Liber de Creatione Cabalistinis, Hebraice Sepher Jezira; Authore Abrahamo.[↗](../../primus/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../primus/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In Tomus Primus of \*\* Artis Cabalisticae hoc est reconditae theologiae et philosophise script orum."[↗](../../primus/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") Basileae 1587, is found \*\* Liber de Creatione Cabalistinis, Hebraice Sepher Jezira ; Authore Abrahamo.[↗](../../primus/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../primus/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **prince** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A prince is a son or grandson of a king or queen.[↗](../../prince/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A prince can be a man who rules a small country.[↗](../../prince/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In stories a prince is a royal young man, often a hero.[↗](../../prince/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Early Modern English, meaning 1:* A leader or chief, such as the head of a tribe in the Torah, or a chief spirit in Sefer Yetzirah.[↗](../../prince/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The prince rode through the dark forest.[↗](../../prince/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story the frog turned into a prince.[↗](../../prince/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Prince Charming found Cinderella with the glass slipper.[↗](../../prince/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The young prince will be king one day.[↗](../../prince/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Monaco is ruled by a prince.[↗](../../prince/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She dressed up as a prince for the play.[↗](../../prince/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · "But why not?" inquired the prince.[↗](../../prince/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.[↗](../../prince/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.22.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../prince/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer: (Torah NUM.7.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../prince/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · the prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites being Eliasaph the son of Lael, (Torah NUM.3.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../prince/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And all the congregation murmured against the princes.[↗](../../prince/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOS.9.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../prince/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.[↗](../../prince/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.9.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../prince/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.[↗](../../prince/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.8.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../prince/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:[↗](../../prince/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.7.18, JPS 1917) · "But why not?" inquired the prince.[↗](../../prince/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) · It illuminates the splendor of all lights, and causes a supply of influence to emanate from the Prince of countenances.[↗](../../prince/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) **princedom** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A country or land ruled by a prince; a principality.[↗](../../princedom/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The rank or position of a prince.[↗](../../princedom/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The tiny princedom lay between two great kingdoms.[↗](../../princedom/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Monaco is a small princedom by the sea.[↗](../../princedom/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He inherited the princedom from his father.[↗](../../princedom/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the fairy tale, the princedom was cursed by a witch.[↗](../../princedom/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The princedom had its own coins and flag.[↗](../../princedom/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Old maps of Europe show many small princedoms.[↗](../../princedom/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **princely** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Like a prince; fit for a prince, grand and fine.[↗](../../princely/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Very large or generous: a princely sum.[↗](../../princely/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Ivan put on his princely robes.[↗](../../princely/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The king gave a princely feast.[↗](../../princely/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She was paid a princely sum for her work.[↗](../../princely/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Before I was aware, my soul set me upon the chariots of my princely people.[↗](../../princely/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.6.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../princely/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) … [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/57/) **58** [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/59/) … [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/77/) - ← previous: [page 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/57/) - next →: [page 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/59/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)