noun
Meaning 1
A fictional heroic prince in various fairy-tales.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Phrase guide
Prince Charming
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noun
Meaning 2
A heterosexual woman's prototypical ideal romantic partner, especially but not necessarily if he embodies common characteristics of the fictional princes, such as being courageous or chivalrous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Examples
- She's still unmarried because she is waiting for her Prince Charming... and he may not exist.
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noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of Prince Charming.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 4
a suitor who fulfills the dreams of his beloved
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: suitor, suer, wooer
History
Etymology
Calque of French Roi Charmant (“Charming King”).
Across languages
Translations
65 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Basque: printze xarmant — fictional character
- Catalan: príncep encantador — fictional character
- Catalan: príncep blau — fictional character
- Chinese Mandarin: 白馬王子 /白马王子 (báimǎ wángzǐ) — fictional character
- Danish: prins på den hvide hest — fictional character
- Dutch: prins op het witte paard — fictional character
- Esperanto: ĉarma princo — fictional character
- Finnish: unelmien prinssi — fictional character
- Finnish: satuprinssi — fictional character
- French: prince charmant — fictional character
- Greek: πριγκιπόπουλο (prigkipópoulo) — fictional character
- Greek: πρίγκιπας του παραμυθιού (prígkipas tou paramythioú) — fictional character
- Greek: γοητευτικός πρίγκιπας (goïteftikós prígkipas) — fictional character
- Hungarian: szőke herceg — fictional character
- Italian: principe azzurro — fictional character
- Japanese: 王子様 (ōji-sama) — fictional character
- Japanese: プリンス・チャーミング — fictional character
- Korean: 백마 탄 왕자 (baengma tan wangja) — fictional character
- Latvian: sapņu princis — fictional character
- Lithuanian: svajonių princas — fictional character
- Norwegian: drømmeprins — fictional character
- Polish: książę z bajki — fictional character
- Portuguese: príncipe encantado — fictional character
- Romanian: Făt-Frumos — fictional character
- Romansh: prinzi da paraula — fictional character
- Russian: прекра́сный принц (prekrásnyj princ) — fictional character
- Serbo-Croatian: принц на белом коњу — fictional character
- Serbo-Croatian: princ na belom konju — fictional character
- Spanish: príncipe azul — fictional character
- Swedish: drömprins — fictional character
- Turkish: yakışıklı prens — fictional character
- Arabic: فتى الأحلام — romantically ideal man
- Arabic: فارس الأحلام — romantically ideal man
- Catalan: príncep encantador — romantically ideal man
- Catalan: príncep blau — romantically ideal man
- Chinese Cantonese: 如意郎君 (jyu4 ji3 long4 gwan1) — romantically ideal man
- Chinese Cantonese: 白馬王子 /白马王子 (baak6 maa5 wong4 zi2) — romantically ideal man
- Chinese Mandarin: 白馬王子 /白马王子 (báimǎ wángzǐ) — romantically ideal man
- Chinese Mandarin: 如意郎君 (rúyìlángjūn) — romantically ideal man
- Danish: prinsen på den hvide hest — romantically ideal man
- Danish: drømmeprins — romantically ideal man
- Dutch: prins op het witte paard — romantically ideal man
- Dutch: droomprins — romantically ideal man
- Finnish: unelmien prinssi — romantically ideal man
- French: prince charmant — romantically ideal man
- German: Märchenprinz — romantically ideal man
- Greek: πριγκιπόπουλο (prigkipópoulo) — romantically ideal man
- Greek: πρίγκιπας του παραμυθιού (prígkipas tou paramythioú) — romantically ideal man
- Italian: principe azzurro — romantically ideal man
- Italian: principe azzurro sul cavallo bianco — romantically ideal man
- Japanese: 王子様 (ōji-sama) — romantically ideal man
- Norwegian: eventyrprinsen — romantically ideal man
- Polish: książę z bajki — romantically ideal man
- Portuguese: príncipe encantado — romantically ideal man
- Romanian: Făt-Frumos — romantically ideal man
- Russian: прекра́сный принц (prekrásnyj princ) — romantically ideal man
- Russian: ска́зочный принц (skázočnyj princ) — romantically ideal man
- Russian: принц на белом коне (princ na belom kone) — romantically ideal man
- Serbo-Croatian: принц на белом коњу — romantically ideal man
- Serbo-Croatian: princ na belom konju — romantically ideal man
- Spanish: príncipe azul — romantically ideal man
- Swedish: drömprins — romantically ideal man
- Swedish: prins charmig — romantically ideal man
- Turkish: yakışıklı prens — romantically ideal man
- Vietnamese: bạch mã hoàng tử — romantically ideal man