Price definition
Price is a noun meaning "the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)." It has 8 meanings, as a noun and a verb, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun, verb
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 5
- How common
- Everyday word
Price as a noun
the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
"he puts a high price on his services"
Same sense: cost, monetary value
the amount of money needed to purchase something
"the price of gasoline"
Same sense: terms, damage
value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
"the price of success is hard work"
Same sense: cost, toll
the high value or worth of something
"her price is far above rubies"
a monetary reward for helping to catch a criminal
"the cattle thief has a price on his head"
cost of bribing someone
"they say that every politician has a price"
Price as a verb
determine the price of
"The grocer priced his wares high"
ascertain or learn the price of
"Have you priced personal computers lately?"
Synonyms and antonyms
- cost definition
- monetary value
- terms
- damage
- toll
How to say price
Price has 1 syllable and rhymes with nice. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with price
- nice
- ice
- advice
- twice
- vice
- device
- rice
- sacrifice
- paradise
- precise
- mice
- slice
PRICE in word games
- Scrabble
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Anagrams
- 1
Is PRICE a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check PRICE in the word checker, or unscramble PRICE to see its 1 anagram and the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.