prizenoun [ C ]
uk/praɪz/us/praɪz/A2 something valuable, such as an amount of money, that is given to someone who succeeds in a competition or game or that is given to someone as a reward for doing very good work:
something important and valuable that is difficult to achieve or get:
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- First prize is a fortnight in Barbados and second prize is a weekend in Rome.
- There's a prize for the fastest three runners in each category.
- Carlos was awarded first prize in the essay competition.
- The children collected their prizes and then went back to their places.
- Her internationally acclaimed novel has won several literary prizes.
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Prizes, rewards and medals
- Academy Award
- award
- blue ribbon
- booby prize
- bronze
- bronze medal
- colour
- gong
- Grammy
- honor
- honorable
- honour
- honourable mention
- Purple Heart
- quid pro quo
- reward
- ribbon
- rollover
- stake
- VC
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Idiom(s)
prizeverb
uk/praɪz/us/praɪz/prize verb (REWARD)
[ T often passive ] to think that someone or something is very valuable or important:
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Liking
- affection
- attached
- be a glutton for sth idiom
- be a hit with sb idiom
- be big on sth idiom
- grow
- grow on sb
- have a lot of time for sb idiom
- have a thing about sth/sb idiom
- heart
- hit
- lick your lips idiom
- liking
- soft corner
- soft spot
- take a shine to sb idiom
- take to sb/sth
- taken
- thing
- warm
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prize verb (LIFT)
[ T + adv/prep ] UK also prise, US also pry to use force to lift something off something else, for example by pressing a tool against a fixed point; to separate things using force:
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Raising and lowering
- elevate
- elevated
- erect
- go down
- hike sth up
- hoick
- hoist
- jack
- jack sth up
- lever
- leverage
- lower
- pick sb/sth up
- prick (sth) up
- put
- ride
- run
- run sth up
- scoop sth/sb up
- winch
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Phrasal verb(s)
prizeadjective [ before noun ]
uk/praɪz/us/praɪz/A prize animal, flower, or vegetable is one that has won or deserves to win a prize in a competition because it is of very good quality:
used to describe something that is a very good or important example of its type:
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Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incomparable
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- outstanding
- parallel
- sick
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
- textbook
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