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# prize

«prize» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **something you win for doing well in a game, race or contest** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (prize, prizes); verb (prize, prizes, prized, prizing); adjective (a prize pumpkin)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A prize is something you win for doing well in a game, race or contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#m1)

2) A prize is anything very valuable that people want to get. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#m2)

3) To prize something is to value it very much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#m3)

4) A prize animal or plant is one good enough to win prizes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Tanakh it is a reward or something valued highly. In the primary lessons: things won; prize money shared among winners; in school: prizes for spelling, art or sports day; in stories: the hero wins the prize or a treasure; in everyday life: raffles and quizzes with prizes; phrases: «first prize», «win a prize», «prize-giving», «the Nobel Prize»

### examples

- The prize is $60 shared among 3 winners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#x1)
- 5 prizes were given. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#x2)
- First prize is twice second prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#x3)
- Each prize costs $4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#x4)
- She won first prize in the art contest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#x5)
- The prize for the quiz was a box of chocolates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#x6)
- He grew a prize pumpkin for the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#x7)
- Grandma prizes her old photos. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#x8)
- At prize-giving, everyone clapped for the winners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#x9)
- "The gold piece is your prize." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/#x10)

### note

Shared prize money: divide by winners ($60 ÷ 3 = $20). «Twice second prize» means second prize × 2. Homophone: «pries» (from pry) sounds the same. Do not confuse «prize» (a reward) with «price» (what something costs).

### In the corpora

- [Free prizes that want your password are traps."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/4/)
- [A prize won with someone else's work does not feel like winning; owning up is the brave thing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/15/)
- [Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/13/)
- [Many places no longer give goldfish as fair prizes, because a fish in a small bag is stressed and often dies soon after.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth/8/)
- [Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize in 1973 for working out the bee dance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prize» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prize/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.