- a female member of a royal family who is not a queen, especially the daughter or granddaughter of the king or queen
- the royal princesses
- Princess Anne
- the wife of a prince
- princess of… the Princess of Wales
- (disapproving) a young woman who has always been given everything that she wants, and who thinks that she is better than other people
- (British English, informal) used by some men as a form of address to a girl or young woman
- Is something the matter, princess?
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French princesse, from prince, from Latin princeps, princip- ‘first, chief, sovereign’, from primus ‘first’ + capere ‘take’.
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