prize 1 S2 W2 / praɪz / 名词 [可数名词]

1 something that is given to someone who is successful in a competition, race, game of chance etc :

In this month’s competition you could win a prize worth £3,000.

The first prize has gone to Dr John Gentle.

prize for

The prize for best photography has been won by a young Dutch photographer.

Scientists from Oxford shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945.

The prizes are awarded (= given ) every year to students who have shown original thinking in their work.

The total prize money was £30,000.

2 something that is very valuable to you or that it is very important to have :

Fame was the prize.

3 no prizes for guessing something spoken used to say that it is very easy to guess something :

No prizes for guessing what she was wearing.

COLLOCATIONS

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win a prize ( also take a prize ) She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. | Ms Brolls also took the prize for best individual speaker.

get a prize ( also receive a prize formal ) The winner gets a prize. | If your letter is published, you will receive a £5 prize.

share a prize They will share the first prize of £500.

give (somebody) a prize ( also award (somebody) a prize formal ) A prize will be given for the best-decorated egg. | Four years later he was awarded the Erasmus Prize.

a prize goes to somebody (= they get it ) The fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + prize

first/second etc prize She won first prize in a poetry competition.

the top prize The film won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

a consolation prize (= one given to someone who has not won ) The runner-up will get a consolation prize of a camera.

the booby prize (= one given as a joke to the person who comes last ) The cake I made for the competition was so bad I got the booby prize.

a cash prize There’s a $5,000 cash prize for the winner.

prize + NOUN

a prize winner Congratulations to all the prize winners!

prize money The players are demanding an increase in prize money.

a prize draw British English (= a competition in which people whose names or tickets are chosen by chance win prizes ) He won the car in a prize draw.