PRICE
What does "PRICE" mean?
The amount of money for which something is bought or sold.
Meanings
- The money required to buy a particular thing. The price of bread rose again this month.
- An unwelcome cost or sacrifice that comes with something. Fame came at the price of any privacy. figurative
- To set or determine the cost of something. They priced the new model below the competition.
Did you know?
- 'Price', 'prize', and 'praise' are etymological triplets: all three grew from the single Latin word 'pretium', meaning value.
Word origin
From Old French 'pris' (price, value, reward), from Latin 'pretium' (price, value); the same Latin root gives English 'precious', 'prize', and 'appreciate'.
Remember it
PRICE shares its skeleton with PRIZE - one tells the cost, the other the reward, and both come from Latin 'pretium'.
A little poem
The tag says one small number, neat-
but read the fine print at your feet:
the true price never fits the sheet.
tercet
Wordplay
- I asked the mind reader what her session cost. She said, 'You already know the price.'
What it teaches
Every price has two columns: the one on the tag, and the one you pay later.
Quick facts
What does PRICE mean?
The amount of money for which something is bought or sold.
Is PRICE a valid word?
Yes — PRICE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PRICE?
PRICE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does PRICE come from?
From Old French 'pris' (price, value, reward), from Latin 'pretium' (price, value); the same Latin root gives English 'precious', 'prize', and 'appreciate'.
What can PRICE teach us?
Every price has two columns: the one on the tag, and the one you pay later.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.