prize1 nounprize2 verbprize3 adjective
prizeprize1 /praɪz/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINprize1
Origin:
1500-1600 prise, an earlier form of price; ➔ PRICE1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A list of prize winners will appear in net week's issue.
- First prize is a trip to Orlando.
- New York State, with 33 votes in the electoral college, is seen as a major prize.
- Second prize is a book token.
- She's going to marry Simon, but I don't think he's much of a prize.
- She won the Booker Prize for her novel 'The Blind Assassin'.
- The prize is a 3-week holiday in the Bahamas.
- All this, special guests and fabulous prizes, too.
- In fact, there's a prize for the person who can find a Colin Chapman in the most Lotus-like position.
- It was as if the mere presence of the prize made each man doubt his own wisdom.
- The prize for the year's best book other than fiction goes to Gwyn Thomas and Margaret Jones for their third collaboration.
- Their prize was a new Champion bass boat and Evinrude engine.
- There are no prizes for guessing why this should be.
Longman Language Activatorsomething that you get when you win
something that is given to the person who wins a competition, game, or race: · The prize is a 3-week holiday in the Bahamas.first/second/third etc prize: · Second prize is a book token.win/get a prize: · She won the Booker Prize for her novel 'The Blind Assassin'.prize winner: · A list of prize winners will appear in net week's issue.
a special silver or gold container, shaped like a large cup with two handles, that is given to the winner of a sports competition: · The Queen presented the cup to the captain of the winning team.
a round flat piece of metal that is given to someone who has won a race, game, or competition: · The winning team went up to collect their medalsgold/silver/bronze medal (=a medal for coming first/second/third): · The gold medal was won by Anna Svensen.
an object or special cup that is given to the winner of a race, game, or competition, especially in sports: · The winner went to receive her trophy.· They became the first British team to win a major European trophy.
the largest amount of money that can be won in a game of chance: · The jackpot is worth $1 million this week.hit the jackpot (=win it): · Unemployed roadsweeper Mickey Reid hit the jackpot when his £4 Lotto ticket won him £1.8m.
money that you win by playing games for money: · She collected her winnings and put them into her bag.· Scooping up his winnings, he went off to invest them at the blackjack table.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
Congratulations! You have been entered into our £100,000 prize draw! She won first prize in a painting competition. He went up to receive his award from the mayor. a Nobel prize winnerCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(also take a prize)· She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938.· Ms Brolls also took the prize for best individual speaker.
(also receive a prize formal)· The winner gets a prize.· If your letter is published, you will receive a £5 prize.
· They will share the first prize of £500.
(also award (somebody) a prize formal)· A prize will be given for the best-decorated egg.· Four years later he was awarded the Erasmus Prize.
(=they get it)· The fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + prize· She won first prize in a poetry competition.
· The film won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
(=one given to someone who has not won)· The runner-up will get a consolation prize of a camera.
(=one given as a joke to the person who comes last)· The cake I made for the competition was so bad I got the booby prize.
· There's a $5,000 cash prize for the winner.
prize + NOUN· Congratulations to all the prize winners!
· The players are demanding an increase in prize money.
British English (=a competition in which people whose names or tickets are chosen by chance win prizes)· He won the car in a prize draw.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=a prize that is money)· The winner will get a cash prize of £10,000.
(=to give people prizes for good achievements at school or college)· A prize-giving ceremony will take place tomorrow night at the university.
Congratulations! You have been entered into our £100,000 prize draw! She won first prize in a painting competition. (=one that is very important to you)· One of my most treasured possessions is a small book of prayers.
He went up to receive his award from the mayor. a Nobel prize winner· My essay wins a big prize.· The big prize in village cricket will be won by a central south side.· For wherever the Coopers have gone, ice hockey's biggest prize, the Heineken Championship, has followed.· Never mind, Mark had still won the biggest prize of all.· Mandalay, the rebels' biggest prize, was recaptured in April.· A great number of small prizes rather than just one or two big prizes gives more winners and more satisfaction.· And they won a big prize - nowadays it would be the price of a family car.
· Cake and white elephant stalls plus a grand prize draw.· Oh, well, Democrats won the grandest prize but the Republicans raised the most cash.· Not only do I never win the grand prize in these raffles.· The New West up at Ina and I-10 offers a $ 3, 000 grand prize at their bash!
· All visitors have a chance to win some great health prizes.· There came Stalin, for whom the really great prize of power was unobstructed enjoyment of murder.· That will be a great prize if we can achieve it.· Further, as it becomes more and more the administrative center of Empire, it becomes a greater prize.· Then, there's the chance of a gold run, slightly more complicated, but with great prizes at the end.· Not that Sanchez is any great prize.· Our friend Drummle has won a great prize!· But Tan Son Nhut was the greatest prize for the North.
· Winning a major prize in a competition is something people only dream of.· It was Aamodt's fourth successive race victory and gave him the title for the discipline, if not the major prize.· I've a feeling he thrives on such reactions, and this is why he won a major prize.
· Sutton's reward was a cheque for $ 1m, the richest prize in golf.· Her surviving crew members, rich with prize money, are unprepared, perhaps, for what lies ahead -- peace.· Toulouse would be a rich prize and it would have been foolish to allow the claim to drop.· Despite the Midland's many failings, it is still a rich prize for Hongkong Bank.
· Each month, the writer of the best letter will receive a special book prize.· For the exceptional practitioner of self-denial a special prize is in store.· This does not have to have been the winning of some special prize or coming first in every race.· The jury for drama handed out a pair of special prizes.· Entrants for the Cup need not be members, but the 100K Association will award special prizes for members.· Tony Wildy was the surprised recipient of a special prize.
· With this project, he won the top prize in a course competition.· A turnover of £1.5 billion a year would produce a weekly prize payout of £14 million with one top prize.· Name three features of Beaver's top quality competition prize. 3.· As if to prove it, our green-fingered experts have again picked up the top prizes in Aberdeen district council's gardening competition.· This was the Mashers Cup, the top prize for the day for the overall winner of the two rounds.· There would be more chance of winning the £200,000 top prize.
NOUN· It could only be because she thought they'd win a kind of booby prize.· If they were giving out prizes for what you do in bed he'd have come away with the booby prize.
· The best mural patterns will be awarded cash prizes from the district and Petersfield Town Council.· There are cash prizes and the prestigious Harry Gerrard Cup to be won.· Readers' original gardening tips Another batch of £50 cash prizes are winging their way to this month's top tipsters.· Top awards are given for the best net and best gross scores with over £200 in cash prizes.· Winning teams at this venue receive a cash prize.· This is open to painters, printers and sculptors and over £6,000 worth of cash prizes are to be awarded.· And, with up to five dividends payable, even with six or seven score draws you could collect a big cash prize.· Winners of this year's competition will take over the education page for a day and pick up a £200 cash prize.
· Hendry, who compiled a clearance of 123 in the tenth frame, collected the consolation prize of £14,000.· The consolation prize for picking four of six numbers in Lotto also is predetermined.· A merger with Rediffusion for the weekday contract was a consolation prize for them both.
· Our next prize draw will take place on 31 May - remember each entry is eligible.· There will also be a free prize draw with £100, £50 and £25 Guinness vouchers on offer.· A prize draw was held regularly, and winners were awarded specially designed T shirts.· Some local authorities have been very effective at this - in Greenwich, people who registered were entered in a prize draw.· The festival organisers will give away one free ballon ride a day in a prize draw.· Ministers aim to widen interest by running a host of smaller competitions alongside the £1 million-a-week prize draw.
· Most of the leading Ulster players will participate and with Carslberg underwriting the championships the prize fund has been increased.· The winner will receive £1,500 from a prize fund of £7,700.· Another argument is that the planned £250,000 prize fund guarantees the players, as well as administrators, a bumper tournament.
· Premier event with over £10,000 in prize money plus pools and trophies worth an extra £6,000.· It may seem a little loopy that computer gamers have a league of their own, with six-figure prize money to boot.· The tournament returns to Royal Lytham in July and carries prize money of £220,000.· An Olympic title would yield $ 65, 000 in prize money, more than tripling his current annual income.· Dessie won the Gold Cup at Cheltenham in 1989 and in his career won £500,000 in prize money.· Her surviving crew members, rich with prize money, are unprepared, perhaps, for what lies ahead -- peace.· Total prize money in 1975 was just £700,000 a figure that Nick Faldo has exceeded on his own this year.· Apart from anything else she was unemployed and they needed the two thousand pounds prize money.
· The eighty-three year old Nobel Peace prize winner is currently on a nationwide tour.· Forged papers were sent to the Nobel committee in 1982 in an effort to stop him from winning its peace prize.
· The impending retirement of Mr Arias, Nobel prize winner and the main motivator, has increased uncertainty.· He ended up with a prize winner.· The prize winner will be notified by phone. 5.· Gazette reserves the right to publish at our discretion a photograph of the prize winner. 6.· The eighty-three year old Nobel Peace prize winner is currently on a nationwide tour.· The prize winners will be notified by post within 8 weeks of the closing date. 8.· The first prize winners are: Neil Glaister, of Spennymoor.
VERB· Fortunately the judges agreed, and awarded it the first prize.· Einstein was awarded the Nobel prize for his contribution to quantum theory.· That's why we award Ig Nobel prizes.· Entrants for the Cup need not be members, but the 100K Association will award special prizes for members.· Reducing taxes, reducing rents, awarding more prizes on the trust fund, reducing administrative charges, reducing insurance fund contributions?· He awarded it third prize and walked away.
· On the other hand, if it delays too long, a rival bird may have collected the prize.· The tie and jacket are for stand-ups and collecting prizes.· A local boys' club will collect the £650 prize.· The boys involved were not allowed to collect any end-of-term prizes.· Hendry, who compiled a clearance of 123 in the tenth frame, collected the consolation prize of £14,000.· Numbers were quickly drawn and the lucky winners came forward to collect their prize from the manufacturers and dealers who donated them.
· Perhaps they were giving prizes to Mandy Rice-Davies-type men.· He was right about this last point, but only because the other four voted to give the prize to another candidate.· Jonny was given first prize and a cheque for £750 for the novelty of his idea and professional presentation.· A reconditioned 1950 model tractor will be given as a door prize.· If they were giving out prizes for what you do in bed he'd have come away with the booby prize.· I have had to stoop to pocketing the money the Supporters' Club give for raffle prizes.· We usually start by looking through the Yellow Pages and ringing up companies to ask if they will give donations and prizes.· Provide paints and give a prize for the best-decorated egg.
· Today we're offering 100 prizes of £50 to help you do just that.· One, they offer large prizes.· We never offer recording contracts as prizes, although we are constantly asked to do so.· The prizes are the products described on this page; no cash substitute will be offered.· If you can offer a raffle prize or give a donation towards this please let Cicely Harris know as soon as possible.· Most of our competitions offer moderate prizes which may be taken advantage of by staff in all parts of the company.· Organisers said that the successful bidder would lunch with the governor who had offered the prize.· He succeeds in the game and the goldfish offers him a prize.
· At the packed dinner afterwards the President, Mr. Andy Heffernan presented the prizes.· Demonstrators are called to the microphone to be presented with their prizes and there's lots of hugging and kissing.· He knew very well he wasn't up there to be presented with a prize.
· The best tip of the year will receive a prize to the value of £500.· The following year, Lee and Yang received the Nobel prize for their idea.· Morgan received a Nobel prize in 1933, and Muller in 1946.· The first 200 correct winners out of the postbag on Monday, September 14 will receive prizes.· The winner will receive £1,500 from a prize fund of £7,700.· The winning team will receive prizes of office equipment worth thousands of pounds to be used by its respective company.· Second and third receive tankards and money prizes.· I received £300 prize money and a three foot tall trophy.
· Huggins shared a Nobel prize in 1966 with Peyton Rous.· Instead, Midlands and Lothian shared the prize with two wins apiece.
· He took the prize and held it as if it were a page of Gutenberg Bible.· The meat producer McKechnie Jess took the prize for best small manufacturing company.· In spite of his deafness he was an outstanding pupil, taking the principal prizes in mathematics and science.· But Budweiser takes the top prize with one particular ad.
· All visitors have a chance to win some great health prizes.· Jovellanos won the prize for his play, El delincuente honrado.· I've a feeling he thrives on such reactions, and this is why he won a major prize.· Horton Foote wins the prize for drama, and the fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.· His characterless Seventh Symphony won a Lenin prize.· I know that her proudest moment was when she won a prize in high school in 1929, for writing.· Jane Stemp won a £50 prize in the 1989 National Poetry Competition.· The best costume wins an authentic Tick prize autographed by Tick creator Ben Edlund.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1something that is given to someone who is successful in a competition, race, game of chance etc: - Enclosed his picture - no prizes for guessing his breed.
- There are no prizes for guessing why this should be.
- First prize was an award of $ 1, 500 for the biggest female killed during the year.
- Even though Ausmus should never have been sent away in the first place.
- In the first place, it deals with those elements in human nature which are timeless.
- In the first place, it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed.
- In the first place, it was relativist; it proclaimed no value system as its basis; it lacked normative quality.
- It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.
- My family, my household, and my job all demand first place in my life!
- This assumes that banks have surplus liquidity in the first place.
In this month’s competition you could win a prize worth £3,000. The first prize has gone to Dr John Gentle.prize for The prize for best photography has been won by a young Dutch photographer. Scientists from Oxford shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945. The prizes are awarded (=given) every year to students who have shown original thinking in their work. The total prize money was £30,000.2something that is very valuable to you or that it is very important to have: Fame was the prize.3no prizes for guessing something spoken used to say that it is very easy to guess something: No prizes for guessing what she was wearing.COLLOCATIONSverbswin a prize (also take a prize)· She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938.· Ms Brolls also took the prize for best individual speaker.get a prize (also receive a prize formal)· The winner gets a prize.· If your letter is published, you will receive a £5 prize.share a prize· They will share the first prize of £500.give (somebody) a prize (also award (somebody) a prize formal)· A prize will be given for the best-decorated egg.· Four years later he was awarded the Erasmus Prize.a prize goes to somebody (=they get it)· The fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + prizefirst/second etc prize· She won first prize in a poetry competition.the top prize· The film won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival.a consolation prize (=one given to someone who has not won)· The runner-up will get a consolation prize of a camera.the booby prize (=one given as a joke to the person who comes last)· The cake I made for the competition was so bad I got the booby prize.a cash prize· There's a $5,000 cash prize for the winner.prize + NOUNa prize winner· Congratulations to all the prize winners!prize money· The players are demanding an increase in prize money.a prize draw British English (=a competition in which people whose names or tickets are chosen by chance win prizes)· He won the car in a prize draw.prize1 nounprize2 verbprize3 adjective
prizeprize2 ●○○ verb [transitive] VERB TABLE
prize
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | prize |
| he, she, it | prizes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | prized |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have prized |
| he, she, it | has prized | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had prized |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will prize |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have prized |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am prizing |
| he, she, it | is prizing | |
| you, we, they | are prizing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was prizing |
| you, we, they | were prizing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been prizing |
| he, she, it | has been prizing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been prizing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be prizing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been prizing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- This culture prizes conformity, and frowns on any form of rebellion.
- All kinds of birds and fish were also fair game, with parrots being particularly prized prey.
- Bank pressures already have forced them to sell off 30 prized purebred heifers to raise money to pay back debt.
- But in this new conception of death people found a new conception of life, prized anew for its own intrinsic worth.
- I can not completely conform in this culture that prizes conformity so I might as well act as freely as I wish.
- Silver and gold are rare and were prized for their monetary value, appearance and resistance to corrosion.
- Their top of the range shoes are highly prized by fashion-conscious youngsters ... and can cost 70 pounds a pair and upwards.
- Then choose one of your prized life achievements and write about how you achieved it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The company’s shoes are highly prized by fashion conscious youngsters.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Congratulations! You have been entered into our £100,000 prize draw! She won first prize in a painting competition. He went up to receive his award from the mayor. a Nobel prize winnerCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
The company’s shoes are highly prized by fashion conscious youngsters. (=a prize that is money)· The winner will get a cash prize of £10,000.
(=to give people prizes for good achievements at school or college)· A prize-giving ceremony will take place tomorrow night at the university.
Congratulations! You have been entered into our £100,000 prize draw! She won first prize in a painting competition. (=one that is very important to you)· One of my most treasured possessions is a small book of prayers.
He went up to receive his award from the mayor. a Nobel prize winner· The affluent viewers who watch financial news are highly prized by advertisers.· It was something else to tell that to a highly prized research scientist, engineer, or computer programmer.· Fasting produced intense dreams and the capacity to dream was highly prized.· The AK47 was a highly prized souvenir and frequently traded by frontline troops to those in the rear for choice booty.· Its fish are highly prized, and the fish soup from Szeged has until now been a national delicacy.· Swallows' nests were highly prized delicacies.· Academic freedom in higher education is something we prize highly.· And nothing is more highly prized than fiscal responsibility.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1to think that someone or something is very important or valuable: - First prize was an award of $ 1, 500 for the biggest female killed during the year.
- Even though Ausmus should never have been sent away in the first place.
- In the first place, it deals with those elements in human nature which are timeless.
- In the first place, it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed.
- In the first place, it was relativist; it proclaimed no value system as its basis; it lacked normative quality.
- It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.
- My family, my household, and my job all demand first place in my life!
- This assumes that banks have surplus liquidity in the first place.
He is someone who prizes truth and decency above all things. The company’s shoes are highly prized by fashion conscious youngsters.2the American spelling of priseprize1 nounprize2 verbprize3 adjective
prizeprize3 adjective [only before noun] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a herd of prize cattle
- one of the team's prize players
- Escamillo became a swaggering prize fighter named Husky Miller.
- Now he wanted the prize possession of my autograph.
- There is an idea for a classroom project, an easy to enter prize competition plus a special cartoon.
- Three prize players were in school working to become eligible next season.
- With trophies and prize money totalling over £3000 this event promises to be spectacular and exciting to both rider and spectators alike.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Congratulations! You have been entered into our £100,000 prize draw! She won first prize in a painting competition. He went up to receive his award from the mayor. a Nobel prize winnerCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
(=a prize that is money)· The winner will get a cash prize of £10,000.
(=to give people prizes for good achievements at school or college)· A prize-giving ceremony will take place tomorrow night at the university.
Congratulations! You have been entered into our £100,000 prize draw! She won first prize in a painting competition. (=one that is very important to you)· One of my most treasured possessions is a small book of prayers.
He went up to receive his award from the mayor. a Nobel prize winner· With trophies and prize money totalling over £3000 this event promises to be spectacular and exciting to both rider and spectators alike.· He said he plans to use the prize money to establish a college fund for his 9-year-old son.· So Petey, what are you going to do with the prize money?· And what will you do with the prize money, Professor?· These words proved prophetic, for the prize money was never claimed.· Aside from that, she lives off the prize money she earns.· Since then, Clearing House has awarded more than $ 92 million in prize money.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1good enough to win a prize or having won a prize: - First prize was an award of $ 1, 500 for the biggest female killed during the year.
- Even though Ausmus should never have been sent away in the first place.
- In the first place, it deals with those elements in human nature which are timeless.
- In the first place, it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed.
- In the first place, it was relativist; it proclaimed no value system as its basis; it lacked normative quality.
- It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.
- My family, my household, and my job all demand first place in my life!
- This assumes that banks have surplus liquidity in the first place.
He has spent months cultivating what he hopes are prize flowers. → prize-winning2very good or important: The Picasso painting is a prize exhibit in the museum.3a prize idiot/fool informal a complete idiot, fool etc