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Definition of princess - 4 dictionary results

prin⋅cess

[prin-sis, -ses, prin-ses]
–noun
1. a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
2. History/Historical. a female sovereign or monarch; queen.
3. the consort of a prince.
4. (in Great Britain) a daughter or granddaughter (if the child of a son) of a king or queen.
5. a woman considered to have the qualities or characteristics of a princess.
–adjective
6. Also, princesse. (of a woman's dress, coat, or the like) styled with a close-fitting bodice and flared skirt, cut in single pieces, as gores, from shoulder to hem.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME princesse < MF. See prince, -ess


prin⋅cess⋅like, adjective
prin⋅cess⋅ly, adjective


See -ess.
prin·cess   (prĭn'sĭs, -sěs', prĭn-sěs')   
n.  
  1. A woman member of a royal family other than the monarch, especially a daughter of a monarch.
    1. A woman who is a ruler of a principality.
    2. A woman who is a hereditary ruler; a queen.
  2. A noblewoman of varying status or rank.
  3. The wife of a prince.
  4. A woman regarded as having the status or qualities of a princess.
adj.  Designed to hang in smooth, close-fitting, unbroken lines from shoulder to flared hem: a princess dress.

[Middle English princesse, from Old French, feminine of prince, prince; see prince.]

Princess

Prin"cess\, n. [F. princesse. See Prince, and cf. Princesse.]

1. A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. --Dryden.

So excellent a princess as the present queen. --Swift.

2. The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family. --Shak.

3. The consort of a prince; as, the princess of Wales.

Princess royal, the eldest daughter of a sovereign.
Language Translation for : princess
Spanish: princesa,
German: die Prinzessin,
Japanese: 王女

princess 
c.1380, from O.Fr. princesse, fem. of prince (q.v.). As a colloquial form of address to a woman or girl, it is recorded from 1924.
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