Definition of princess in English:

princess

noun prɪnˈsɛs

1The daughter of a monarch.
公主
Example sentencesExamples
- He tried to remain calm, but it was hard to do when he was holding within him the secret of a lifetime, that he was in love with her daughter, a princess.
- Perhaps there should be a rule that princes only become monarch if there are no princesses, and that all Governors General be female?
- So, being the king had no other blood relatives, Redoth decided he was going to marry the princess.
- So the king asked the soldier which of the princesses he would choose for his wife; and he answered, ‘I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.’
- Henriette Amazo was a princess, the only daughter of a powerful king - his youngest child.
- Stories of angels, princes and princesses of far-away lands and fairy tales would certainly carry off children to a new world, where their imagination could take on wings.
- The Pharaoh followed by the main queens, Nefertari, and Istnofret, followed by the Crown Prince Merenptah then came the princesses and the remaining princes.
- Additional estates were granted to the empress dowager, the heir apparent, imperial princesses, imperial in-laws, and members of the merit aristocracy.
- Kylie was the perfect daughter, the perfect princess.
- The grounds contain the remains of Elsynge Hall, one of Henry VIII's many hunting lodges and a favourite childhood residence of the young princess Elizabeth.
- The first and most likely possibility is that Pharaoh's daughter remained a princess.
- One of these ladies was Pharaoh's daughter, a princess!
- She was the princess of Argos, daughter of King Acrisus.
- He gave him Meritaten, the oldest princess, as a wife and even crowed him a co-regent.
- As the crowd parts the King of Arms entourage enters the foyer leading the king and his daughter, the princess, to the stage.
- Deputy President Jacob Zuma is engaged to a Swaziland princess, the daughter of Prince Phiwokwakhe Dlamini, his office announced on Saturday.
- If she had a mind to forgive him, it vanished as she spied him in the company of the Trojan princess Cassandra, daughter of Priam.
- Her name is R'jas un Z'kovn Sy'yski and she is the Muse princess, daughter of Prince Noyus and next in line for the throne.
- We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after.
- The second row was occupied by the sultan's unmarried daughters, the princesses Nurmalitasari, Nurkamnari Dewi, Nurabra Juwita and Nurastuti Wijareni.
1. 1.1 A close female relative of a monarch, especially a granddaughter.
  君王的女性近亲属，孙公主
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sayaji Rao began constructing the Laxmi Vilas Palace in 1878 naming it after his first wife, a princess of Tanjore.
  They took Chinese princesses as wives and charged exorbitant prices in silk, grain and tea for their horses (a trade the Chinese tried to disguise as ‘tribute’).
2. 1.2 The wife or widow of a prince.
  王妃；亲王的遗孀
  Example sentencesExamples
  I was thinking about my own ranking; rising from a noble lady to the princess of the kingdom.
  Beside him is his wife, the Georgian princess Nino Chavchavadze.
  The Japanese princess was an aunt of Emperor Akihito and the widow of Prince Takamatsu, a younger brother of the late Emperor Hirohito.
  His second wife was an Armenian princess, married while Baldwin was at Edessa.
3. 1.3 The female ruler of a small state, actually, nominally, or originally subject to a king or emperor.
  （实际上、名义上或出身上隶属于某国王或皇帝的）小国女君主
  Example sentencesExamples
  When Caroline married the son of the Elector of Hanover in 1705, she was an intelligent and relatively attractive minor German princess.
  She could, however, humiliate the princess before her subjects.
  James converted to Catholicism and married a Catholic princess, Mary of Modena, after his first wife's death.
  The story concerns the relationship between a minor Hapsburg princess and an unmoneyed hussar in the late-nineteenth century.
  When a Swazi princess weds a Zulu king, she wears red touraco wing feathers around her forehead and a cape of windowbird feathers and oxtails.
  The government wants a successful trip by the crown prince and princess to pave the way for a visit by Emperor Akihito, the daily said.
  John of Ibelin became regent for Jerusalem, ruling for the young princess Maria.
  Those whose persona is royal are of course kings or queens, or princes or princesses of principalities.
  Synonyms
  monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord
4. 1.4princess of/among A woman or thing regarded as pre-eminent in a particular sphere or group.
  出众的妇女（或事物）；巾帼英雄
  the princess of American politics
  美国政界的女中豪杰。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But the princess royal of country music has always looked beyond her homeland too.
  However, just to get back to my article now, the beginning was like this: What makes a female singer turn into a pop princess?
  Across the kingdom the princes and princesses of pantomime are taking their bows and cracking one-liners in Christmas productions packed with Yuletide yarns and knockabout comic capers.
  Her number one single of last summer, Spinning Around, was, after all, co-written by Paula Abdul - another former pop princess of the 1980s.
2derogatory, informal A spoiled or arrogant young woman.
〈北美〉被宠坏的年轻姑娘；傲慢的女人
stop being such a princess
Example sentencesExamples
- She really didn't know much about real life, she was like a spoiled princess.
- You're nothing but a spoiled little princess.
3British informal A form of address used by a man to a girl or woman.
〈非正式〉（男人对女孩或妇女的称呼）小姐，小公主
is something the matter, princess?
有什么事吗，小姐？

Phrases

princess of the blood

A woman who is a princess by right of her royal descent.
（嫡系）公主，（嫡系）孙公主
Example sentencesExamples
- Henri IV was a direct descendant of the Capetian kings, married a Valois princess of the blood, and founded the Bourbon dynasty.
- His eye fell on Fawzia, a princess of the blood and the favorite sister of a King.
- ‘I still can't believe that a princess of the blood would go out dressed like this,’ Alice shook her head with a sigh, her own dress swirling around her legs, blue eyes widened with distress.
- Besides, it often happened that a prince or a princess of the blood was having a Mass spoken in a secondary altar of the Chapelle Royale during the king's Mass.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French princesse, from prince (see prince).

Rhymes

acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes

Definition of princess in US English:

princess

noun

1The daughter of a monarch.
公主
Example sentencesExamples
- Kylie was the perfect daughter, the perfect princess.
- Stories of angels, princes and princesses of far-away lands and fairy tales would certainly carry off children to a new world, where their imagination could take on wings.
- The first and most likely possibility is that Pharaoh's daughter remained a princess.
- As the crowd parts the King of Arms entourage enters the foyer leading the king and his daughter, the princess, to the stage.
- We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after.
- She was the princess of Argos, daughter of King Acrisus.
- Her name is R'jas un Z'kovn Sy'yski and she is the Muse princess, daughter of Prince Noyus and next in line for the throne.
- If she had a mind to forgive him, it vanished as she spied him in the company of the Trojan princess Cassandra, daughter of Priam.
- Perhaps there should be a rule that princes only become monarch if there are no princesses, and that all Governors General be female?
- The second row was occupied by the sultan's unmarried daughters, the princesses Nurmalitasari, Nurkamnari Dewi, Nurabra Juwita and Nurastuti Wijareni.
- The Pharaoh followed by the main queens, Nefertari, and Istnofret, followed by the Crown Prince Merenptah then came the princesses and the remaining princes.
- He tried to remain calm, but it was hard to do when he was holding within him the secret of a lifetime, that he was in love with her daughter, a princess.
- So, being the king had no other blood relatives, Redoth decided he was going to marry the princess.
- Additional estates were granted to the empress dowager, the heir apparent, imperial princesses, imperial in-laws, and members of the merit aristocracy.
- So the king asked the soldier which of the princesses he would choose for his wife; and he answered, ‘I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.’
- Deputy President Jacob Zuma is engaged to a Swaziland princess, the daughter of Prince Phiwokwakhe Dlamini, his office announced on Saturday.
- The grounds contain the remains of Elsynge Hall, one of Henry VIII's many hunting lodges and a favourite childhood residence of the young princess Elizabeth.
- He gave him Meritaten, the oldest princess, as a wife and even crowed him a co-regent.
- One of these ladies was Pharaoh's daughter, a princess!
- Henriette Amazo was a princess, the only daughter of a powerful king - his youngest child.
1. 1.1 A close female relative of monarch, especially a son's daughter.
  君王的女性近亲属，孙公主
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sayaji Rao began constructing the Laxmi Vilas Palace in 1878 naming it after his first wife, a princess of Tanjore.
  They took Chinese princesses as wives and charged exorbitant prices in silk, grain and tea for their horses (a trade the Chinese tried to disguise as ‘tribute’).
2. 1.2 The wife or widow of a prince.
  王妃；亲王的遗孀
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Japanese princess was an aunt of Emperor Akihito and the widow of Prince Takamatsu, a younger brother of the late Emperor Hirohito.
  His second wife was an Armenian princess, married while Baldwin was at Edessa.
  Beside him is his wife, the Georgian princess Nino Chavchavadze.
  I was thinking about my own ranking; rising from a noble lady to the princess of the kingdom.
3. 1.3 The female ruler of a small state, actually, nominally, or originally subject to a king or emperor.
  （实际上、名义上或出身上隶属于某国王或皇帝的）小国女君主
  Example sentencesExamples
  The story concerns the relationship between a minor Hapsburg princess and an unmoneyed hussar in the late-nineteenth century.
  She could, however, humiliate the princess before her subjects.
  Those whose persona is royal are of course kings or queens, or princes or princesses of principalities.
  James converted to Catholicism and married a Catholic princess, Mary of Modena, after his first wife's death.
  John of Ibelin became regent for Jerusalem, ruling for the young princess Maria.
  The government wants a successful trip by the crown prince and princess to pave the way for a visit by Emperor Akihito, the daily said.
  When Caroline married the son of the Elector of Hanover in 1705, she was an intelligent and relatively attractive minor German princess.
  When a Swazi princess weds a Zulu king, she wears red touraco wing feathers around her forehead and a cape of windowbird feathers and oxtails.
  Synonyms
  monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord
2derogatory, informal A spoiled or arrogant young woman.
〈北美〉被宠坏的年轻姑娘；傲慢的女人
Example sentencesExamples
- She really didn't know much about real life, she was like a spoiled princess.
- You're nothing but a spoiled little princess.
3British informal A form of address used by a man to a girl or woman.
〈非正式〉（男人对女孩或妇女的称呼）小姐，小公主
is something the matter, princess?
有什么事吗，小姐？

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French princesse, from prince (see prince).

单词	princess
释义	Definition of princess in English: princess noun prɪnˈsɛs 1The daughter of a monarch. 公主 Example sentencesExamples He tried to remain calm, but it was hard to do when he was holding within him the secret of a lifetime, that he was in love with her daughter, a princess. Perhaps there should be a rule that princes only become monarch if there are no princesses, and that all Governors General be female? So, being the king had no other blood relatives, Redoth decided he was going to marry the princess. So the king asked the soldier which of the princesses he would choose for his wife; and he answered, ‘I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.’ Henriette Amazo was a princess, the only daughter of a powerful king - his youngest child. Stories of angels, princes and princesses of far-away lands and fairy tales would certainly carry off children to a new world, where their imagination could take on wings. The Pharaoh followed by the main queens, Nefertari, and Istnofret, followed by the Crown Prince Merenptah then came the princesses and the remaining princes. Additional estates were granted to the empress dowager, the heir apparent, imperial princesses, imperial in-laws, and members of the merit aristocracy. Kylie was the perfect daughter, the perfect princess. The grounds contain the remains of Elsynge Hall, one of Henry VIII's many hunting lodges and a favourite childhood residence of the young princess Elizabeth. The first and most likely possibility is that Pharaoh's daughter remained a princess. One of these ladies was Pharaoh's daughter, a princess! She was the princess of Argos, daughter of King Acrisus. He gave him Meritaten, the oldest princess, as a wife and even crowed him a co-regent. As the crowd parts the King of Arms entourage enters the foyer leading the king and his daughter, the princess, to the stage. Deputy President Jacob Zuma is engaged to a Swaziland princess, the daughter of Prince Phiwokwakhe Dlamini, his office announced on Saturday. If she had a mind to forgive him, it vanished as she spied him in the company of the Trojan princess Cassandra, daughter of Priam. Her name is R'jas un Z'kovn Sy'yski and she is the Muse princess, daughter of Prince Noyus and next in line for the throne. We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after. The second row was occupied by the sultan's unmarried daughters, the princesses Nurmalitasari, Nurkamnari Dewi, Nurabra Juwita and Nurastuti Wijareni. 1.1 A close female relative of a monarch, especially a granddaughter. 君王的女性近亲属，孙公主 Example sentencesExamples Sayaji Rao began constructing the Laxmi Vilas Palace in 1878 naming it after his first wife, a princess of Tanjore. They took Chinese princesses as wives and charged exorbitant prices in silk, grain and tea for their horses (a trade the Chinese tried to disguise as ‘tribute’). 1.2 The wife or widow of a prince. 王妃；亲王的遗孀 Example sentencesExamples I was thinking about my own ranking; rising from a noble lady to the princess of the kingdom. Beside him is his wife, the Georgian princess Nino Chavchavadze. The Japanese princess was an aunt of Emperor Akihito and the widow of Prince Takamatsu, a younger brother of the late Emperor Hirohito. His second wife was an Armenian princess, married while Baldwin was at Edessa. 1.3 The female ruler of a small state, actually, nominally, or originally subject to a king or emperor. （实际上、名义上或出身上隶属于某国王或皇帝的）小国女君主 Example sentencesExamples When Caroline married the son of the Elector of Hanover in 1705, she was an intelligent and relatively attractive minor German princess. She could, however, humiliate the princess before her subjects. James converted to Catholicism and married a Catholic princess, Mary of Modena, after his first wife's death. The story concerns the relationship between a minor Hapsburg princess and an unmoneyed hussar in the late-nineteenth century. When a Swazi princess weds a Zulu king, she wears red touraco wing feathers around her forehead and a cape of windowbird feathers and oxtails. The government wants a successful trip by the crown prince and princess to pave the way for a visit by Emperor Akihito, the daily said. John of Ibelin became regent for Jerusalem, ruling for the young princess Maria. Those whose persona is royal are of course kings or queens, or princes or princesses of principalities. Synonyms monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord 1.4princess of/among A woman or thing regarded as pre-eminent in a particular sphere or group. 出众的妇女（或事物）；巾帼英雄 the princess of American politics 美国政界的女中豪杰。 Example sentencesExamples But the princess royal of country music has always looked beyond her homeland too. However, just to get back to my article now, the beginning was like this: What makes a female singer turn into a pop princess? Across the kingdom the princes and princesses of pantomime are taking their bows and cracking one-liners in Christmas productions packed with Yuletide yarns and knockabout comic capers. Her number one single of last summer, Spinning Around, was, after all, co-written by Paula Abdul - another former pop princess of the 1980s. 2derogatory, informal A spoiled or arrogant young woman. 〈北美〉被宠坏的年轻姑娘；傲慢的女人 stop being such a princess Example sentencesExamples She really didn't know much about real life, she was like a spoiled princess. You're nothing but a spoiled little princess. 3British informal A form of address used by a man to a girl or woman. 〈非正式〉（男人对女孩或妇女的称呼）小姐，小公主 is something the matter, princess? 有什么事吗，小姐？ Phrases princess of the blood A woman who is a princess by right of her royal descent. （嫡系）公主，（嫡系）孙公主 Example sentencesExamples Henri IV was a direct descendant of the Capetian kings, married a Valois princess of the blood, and founded the Bourbon dynasty. His eye fell on Fawzia, a princess of the blood and the favorite sister of a King. ‘I still can't believe that a princess of the blood would go out dressed like this,’ Alice shook her head with a sigh, her own dress swirling around her legs, blue eyes widened with distress. Besides, it often happened that a prince or a princess of the blood was having a Mass spoken in a secondary altar of the Chapelle Royale during the king's Mass. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French princesse, from prince (see prince). Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, transgress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes noun.1 phr. Definition of princess in US English: princess noun 1The daughter of a monarch. 公主 Example sentencesExamples Kylie was the perfect daughter, the perfect princess. Stories of angels, princes and princesses of far-away lands and fairy tales would certainly carry off children to a new world, where their imagination could take on wings. The first and most likely possibility is that Pharaoh's daughter remained a princess. As the crowd parts the King of Arms entourage enters the foyer leading the king and his daughter, the princess, to the stage. We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after. She was the princess of Argos, daughter of King Acrisus. Her name is R'jas un Z'kovn Sy'yski and she is the Muse princess, daughter of Prince Noyus and next in line for the throne. If she had a mind to forgive him, it vanished as she spied him in the company of the Trojan princess Cassandra, daughter of Priam. Perhaps there should be a rule that princes only become monarch if there are no princesses, and that all Governors General be female? The second row was occupied by the sultan's unmarried daughters, the princesses Nurmalitasari, Nurkamnari Dewi, Nurabra Juwita and Nurastuti Wijareni. The Pharaoh followed by the main queens, Nefertari, and Istnofret, followed by the Crown Prince Merenptah then came the princesses and the remaining princes. He tried to remain calm, but it was hard to do when he was holding within him the secret of a lifetime, that he was in love with her daughter, a princess. So, being the king had no other blood relatives, Redoth decided he was going to marry the princess. Additional estates were granted to the empress dowager, the heir apparent, imperial princesses, imperial in-laws, and members of the merit aristocracy. So the king asked the soldier which of the princesses he would choose for his wife; and he answered, ‘I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.’ Deputy President Jacob Zuma is engaged to a Swaziland princess, the daughter of Prince Phiwokwakhe Dlamini, his office announced on Saturday. The grounds contain the remains of Elsynge Hall, one of Henry VIII's many hunting lodges and a favourite childhood residence of the young princess Elizabeth. He gave him Meritaten, the oldest princess, as a wife and even crowed him a co-regent. One of these ladies was Pharaoh's daughter, a princess! Henriette Amazo was a princess, the only daughter of a powerful king - his youngest child. 1.1 A close female relative of monarch, especially a son's daughter. 君王的女性近亲属，孙公主 Example sentencesExamples Sayaji Rao began constructing the Laxmi Vilas Palace in 1878 naming it after his first wife, a princess of Tanjore. They took Chinese princesses as wives and charged exorbitant prices in silk, grain and tea for their horses (a trade the Chinese tried to disguise as ‘tribute’). 1.2 The wife or widow of a prince. 王妃；亲王的遗孀 Example sentencesExamples The Japanese princess was an aunt of Emperor Akihito and the widow of Prince Takamatsu, a younger brother of the late Emperor Hirohito. His second wife was an Armenian princess, married while Baldwin was at Edessa. Beside him is his wife, the Georgian princess Nino Chavchavadze. I was thinking about my own ranking; rising from a noble lady to the princess of the kingdom. 1.3 The female ruler of a small state, actually, nominally, or originally subject to a king or emperor. （实际上、名义上或出身上隶属于某国王或皇帝的）小国女君主 Example sentencesExamples The story concerns the relationship between a minor Hapsburg princess and an unmoneyed hussar in the late-nineteenth century. She could, however, humiliate the princess before her subjects. Those whose persona is royal are of course kings or queens, or princes or princesses of principalities. James converted to Catholicism and married a Catholic princess, Mary of Modena, after his first wife's death. John of Ibelin became regent for Jerusalem, ruling for the young princess Maria. The government wants a successful trip by the crown prince and princess to pave the way for a visit by Emperor Akihito, the daily said. When Caroline married the son of the Elector of Hanover in 1705, she was an intelligent and relatively attractive minor German princess. When a Swazi princess weds a Zulu king, she wears red touraco wing feathers around her forehead and a cape of windowbird feathers and oxtails. Synonyms monarch, sovereign, king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina, prince, potentate, head of state, leader, chief, ruler, lord, overlord 2derogatory, informal A spoiled or arrogant young woman. 〈北美〉被宠坏的年轻姑娘；傲慢的女人 Example sentencesExamples She really didn't know much about real life, she was like a spoiled princess. You're nothing but a spoiled little princess. 3British informal A form of address used by a man to a girl or woman. 〈非正式〉（男人对女孩或妇女的称呼）小姐，小公主 is something the matter, princess? 有什么事吗，小姐？ Origin Late Middle English: from Old French princesse, from prince (see prince).
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