noun estimation; valuation.
2. prize ·noun a contest for a reward; competition.
3. prize ·noun a lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
4. prize ·noun that which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
5. prize ·noun anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
6. prize ·vt to move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
7. prize ·vt to value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
8. prize ·noun that which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
9. prize ·vt to set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
10. prize ·noun anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; ·esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
11. prize ·noun 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.