BLACK PRINCE

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• BLACK PRINCE (noun)
  The noun BLACK PRINCE has 1 sense:

1. son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376)

  Familiarity information: BLACK PRINCE used as a noun is very rare.

• BLACK PRINCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Black Prince; Edward

Instance hypernyms:

Prince of Wales (the male heir apparent of the British sovereign)

 Context examples 

Well might John rejoice, for was he not back in his native Hampshire, had he not Don Diego's five thousand crowns rasping against his knee, and above all was he not himself squire now to Sir Alleyne Edricson, the young Socman of Minstead lately knighted by the sword of the Black Prince himself, and esteemed by the whole army as one of the most rising of the soldiers of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet the bells, when they sounded, told me sorrowfully of change in everything; told me of their own age, and my pretty Dora's youth; and of the many, never old, who had lived and loved and died, while the reverberations of the bells had hummed through the rusty armour of the Black Prince hanging up within, and, motes upon the deep of Time, had lost themselves in air, as circles do in water.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)