as in queen
a usually glamorous woman who is preeminent in her field of activity
as the reigning princess of pop music, she exerts an enormous influence over teens
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Recent Examples of princess
Blanco has written for pop princesses like Ariana Grande, Kesha and Katy Perry, and proved versatile across genres, collaborating with Kanye West, Eminem, SZA and Rihanna.
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Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 12 July 2025
The design plan shows spaces including supermarket, princess, cake shop and kitchen playsets for imaginative play next to a toddler area and a sandbox on one side of the space, with ball blaster, tube slides and trampoline on the other.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2025
Her portrayal of Diana gives this Amazonian princess the proper regal bearing, but Gadot proves to have a wonderfully wry sense of humor as the character continues to be amazed at how weird male mortals are.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
New music: In a musical climate where the pop princess reigns, could Isabel LaRosa be next in line for the crown?
—Laura L. Davis, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 12 July 2025
The design plan shows spaces including supermarket, princess, cake shop and kitchen playsets for imaginative play next to a toddler area and a sandbox on one side of the space, with ball blaster, tube slides and trampoline on the other.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2025
Her portrayal of Diana gives this Amazonian princess the proper regal bearing, but Gadot proves to have a wonderfully wry sense of humor as the character continues to be amazed at how weird male mortals are.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025
New music: In a musical climate where the pop princess reigns, could Isabel LaRosa be next in line for the crown?
—Laura L. Davis, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for princess
Noun
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While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
14 July 2017
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.—
Cole Kazdin,
Los Angeles Magazine,
14 July 2017
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Ophelia Wolf | World Premiere | A type-A opera AD has 15 minutes to get a diva baritone on stage while navigating the backstage chaos of a live production.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
25 June 2025
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And what is Winnie but a great diva’s part—Beckett’s greatest?—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
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“Princess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/princess. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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