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UK
/pɹˈɪnsəlɪŋ/
]
NOUN
- a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality
- a young prince
How To Use princeling In A Sentence
- Ah, but voters are fickle and rarely take into consideration the desires of distant princelings (or columnists, for that matter).
- As if to mock her, at the end of the hall, the princeling in question was heading toward her, with his gaggle of priests in tow. TREASON KEEP
- In any case nothing that their castellan did, nothing he denied, nothing he granted, no princeling he rejected, no humble travelling monastic he welcomed, seemed to occasion surprise here. A River So Long
- The set, by Lez Brotherston, suitably suggests an ornate, tiled bathhouse, inhabited by a mama's-boy princeling who grows up into a mother-dominated prince.
- It's a rare fantasy story that has the young princeling realizing that his father was in fact a cruel and bad ruler, and vowing to change his ways, unite the kingdom and bring peace; really growing up, and becoming his own man.
- Despite his chill, and despite his teeth that were already beginning to chatter while the burning sun extracted the moisture in curling mist-wreaths from the deck planking, Van Horn cuddled Jerry in his arms and called him princeling, and prince, and a king, and a son of kings. CHAPTER VII
- In his portrait of Leonello, Pisanello places the young princeling in profile before a rosebush, the spines of its leaves as if beaten from gold.
- Thus, Scherer does not find support for the hypothesis that political fragmentation in Germany led to increased demand for music from princelings competing to decorate their courts.
- It adds to the basic concept the notion of smallness (as also in gosling, fledgeling) or the somewhat related notion of contemptible (as in weakling, princeling, hireling). Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
- That reminded me that Simla was famous for its diversions, and since the Sales were giving dinner that night to Gough and some cabbage-eating princeling who was making the Indian tour, I was able to cry off, Florentia dropping a hint that I should be home before the milk. Flashman and the Mountain of Light