adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the princely sum of ... (= a large amount – often used humorously to mean a small amount )
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They were surviving on the princely sum of £50 a week.
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For the princely sum of $8 million you too could live in a mansion like this.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sum
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Our local CAA-approved doctor charges the princely sum of £65 for similar services.
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Like the other outreach workers Saturday, Harris earned the princely sum of $ 24 for her hours of outreach.
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And young activists can win the princely sum of £100 if they come up with the winning slogan.
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Eventually, they were returned to Quedlinburg, but not before the heirs of Joe Meador had collected a princely sum .
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This was a princely sum in the year of our Lord, 1926.
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Tim is doing a one-year cabinetmaking course with me and paying a princely sum for the pleasure of doing it.
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The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30.
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They would happily pay out princely sums for completely new garments made from superior imported cloths.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a princely gift
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the princely states
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the number of these dwindled, princely jurisdiction apparently reached its low point.
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Head up, a princely posture.
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It is she who is the target of the fundamentalists, from the most princely to the most popular.
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Problems were now far more likely to arise in determining the rights of succession among competing members of a princely family.
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The evolution of a rudimentary bureaucracy was, by 1180, the distinguishing feature of royal and princely administrations.
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The Fatimids gave their princely fabrics the color of light; their robes and turbans were white and gold.
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When the leaves turn colour and the berry clusters are ripe, the rowan is a princely sight.
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Yet as the century wore on, their military character ceased to be the exclusive distinguishing feature of princely households.