English-Italian translations for prize

  • premioSi tratta di un premio dell'Unione europea, non di un paese straniero. This is a European Union prize, not an unrelated prize. E’ un premio potenziale enorme. That is a great potential prize. Il premio Sacharov non è sufficiente.The Sakharov Prize is not enough.

Definition of prize

  • That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power
  • 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
  • An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort
  • That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery
  • Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect
  • A contest for a reward; competition
  • A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever
  • To consider highly valuable; to esteem
  • To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate
  • To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry
  • Having won a prize; award-winning
  • first-rate; exceptional

Examples

  • a prize vegetable
  • He was a prize fool.

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