Price

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪs
• UK, US: enPR: prÄ«s, IPA: /pɹaɪs/

Origin

From Middle English price ("price, prize, value, excellence"), from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium ("worth, price, money spent, wages, reward"), prob. akin to Ancient Greek περνάω ("I sell"); compare praise, prize, precious, appraise, apprize, appreciate, depreciate, etc.

Full definition of price

Noun

1. The cost required to gain possession of something.
• ShakespeareWe can afford no more at such a price.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 3, My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
2. The cost of an action or deed.
   I paid a high price for my folly.
3. Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
• Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10Her price is far above rubies.
• Keblenew treasures still, of countless price

Derived terms

Verb

1. To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
2. (obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:Thou damned wight,
  The author of this fact, we here behold,
  What iustice can but iudge against thee right,
  With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
3. (obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
4. (colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.to price eggs