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单词 princely
释义
princelyprince‧ly /ˈprɪnsli/ adjective [only before noun] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a princely gift
  • the princely states
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • As the number of these dwindled, princely jurisdiction apparently reached its low point.
  • Head up, a princely posture.
  • It is she who is the target of the fundamentalists, from the most princely to the most popular.
  • Problems were now far more likely to arise in determining the rights of succession among competing members of a princely family.
  • The evolution of a rudimentary bureaucracy was, by 1180, the distinguishing feature of royal and princely administrations.
  • The Fatimids gave their princely fabrics the color of light; their robes and turbans were white and gold.
  • When the leaves turn colour and the berry clusters are ripe, the rowan is a princely sight.
  • Yet as the century wore on, their military character ceased to be the exclusive distinguishing feature of princely households.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 My savings had now reached the princely sum of £30.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a large amount – often used humorously to mean a small amount)· They were surviving on the princely sum of £50 a week.· For the princely sum of $8 million you too could live in a mansion like this.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Our local CAA-approved doctor charges the princely sum of £65 for similar services.· Like the other outreach workers Saturday, Harris earned the princely sum of $ 24 for her hours of outreach.· And young activists can win the princely sum of £100 if they come up with the winning slogan.· Eventually, they were returned to Quedlinburg, but not before the heirs of Joe Meador had collected a princely sum.· This was a princely sum in the year of our Lord, 1926.· Tim is doing a one-year cabinetmaking course with me and paying a princely sum for the pleasure of doing it.· The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30.· They would happily pay out princely sums for completely new garments made from superior imported cloths.
1a princely amount of money is very large – often used humorously to mean a very small amount of money:  My savings had now reached the princely sum of £30. a far from princely salary2formal impressive or generous:  princely buildings A princely welcome awaited them.3belonging or relating to a prince:  a princely state
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