prize > define

noun

• Something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery.
  • usage: "the prize was a free trip to Europe"
  • synonyms: award
• Goods or money obtained illegally.
  • synonyms: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, swag, dirty money
• Something given as a token of victory.
  • synonyms: trophy

verb

• Hold dear.
  • usage: "I prize these old photographs"
  • synonyms: value, treasure, appreciate
• To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open.
  • usage: "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
  • synonyms: pry, prise, lever, jimmy
• Regard highly; think much of.
  • usage: "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity"
  • synonyms: respect, esteem, value, prise

adjective

• Of superior grade.
  • usage: "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches"
  • synonyms: choice, prime, quality, select

• (v.t.) To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
• (n.) Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
• (n.) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
• (n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
• (n.) That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem or superior power.
• (n.) Estimation; valuation.
• (n.) An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for or as an inducement to or reward of, effort.
• (v.t.) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
• (v.t.) To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
• (n.) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
• (n.) A contest for a reward; competition.