prices

nounfinancial value
nounconsequences of action
verbassess financial value

Synonyms for prices

noun financial value

Antonyms for prices

Word Origin & History

c.1200, pris "value, worth; praise," later "cost, recompense, prize" (mid-13c.), from Old French pris "price, value, wages, reward," also "honor, fame, praise, prize" (Modern French prix), from Late Latin precium, from Latin pretium "reward, prize, value, worth," from PIE *pret-yo-, from root *per- (5) "to traffic in, to sell" (cf. Sanskrit aprata "without recompense, gratuitously;" Greek porne "prostitute," originally "bought, purchased," pernanai "to sell;" Lithuanian perku "I buy").

Praise, price, and prize began to diverge in Old French, with praise emerging in Middle English by early 14c. and prize being evident by late 1500s with the rise of the -z- spelling. Having shed the extra Old French and Middle English senses, the word now again has the base sense of the Latin original. To set (or put) a price on someone, "offer a reward for capture" is from 1766.

Example Sentences for prices

Here the employees are served with a warm dinner at prices varying from 2d.

The prices of a few are inserted; sixteen blankets were sold.

I dare say, if this is the way you let them pay your prices.

If he wanted to make a purchase he did not go to several stores for prices.

They are to be had of various sizes and prices at the tin stores.

But I an't a-going to have every rise in prices wisited on me.

I have got all the figures and prices and everything else that it is necessary to have.

Moreover, in modern times, wages lag in general rise of prices.

With a decline in prices, mostly, the cessation of the demand coincides.

The prices are favorable at the moment, and he makes his calculations.