Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - prize

~1 n 1 something that is given to someone who is successful in a competition, race, game of chance etc  (First prize was a weekend for two in Paris.) + for  (Festival judges awarded `Victims' the prize for the best feature film.) win a prize  (Hundreds of cash prizes to be won! | prize winner)  (a list of prize winners | award (sb) a prize (=decide who will have a prize)) 2 something that is very valuable to you or that it is very important to have  (Toulouse was a rich prize, and the Count's army fought hard to keep it.) 3 (there are) no prizes for guessing sth spoken used to say that it is very easy to guess something  (No prizes for guessing who told you that!) 4 an enemy ship caught at sea in the past, or the goods it contained ~2 adj only before noun 1 good enough to win a prize or to have won a prize  (a herd of prize cattle)  (- see also prize­winning) 2 prize money money that is given to the person who wins a competition, race etc 3 a prize idiot/fool informal a complete idiot, fool etc 4 best, most important, or most useful  (The resource centre is one of our prize assets.) ~3 v 1 often passive to think that someone or something is very important or valuable  (a necklace which his mother had prized) 2 T always + adv/prep also prise BrE to move or lift something, by pushing it away from something else; pry (2) AmE  (prize sth off/up/apart etc)  (Eventually we prized the lid off with a knife.) prize sth out phr v to get information from someone with difficulty or by using force  (prize sth out of sb)  (It took an hour to prize the address out of him.)