pride of place
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "On Tuesday last / A falcon towering in her pride of place / Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd."
- "For the Imhoffs, moreover, as for most northern collectors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Dürer holds pride of place, being represented by a complete collection of his prints and probably the largest group of his drawings gathered anywhere."
- "Agnew's triadic postulate is not in itself very controversial, but there have been sharp disagreements over which ingredient(s) of place should be given pride of place."
- "Europe at the start of the 1990s was abuzz with organizational concepts and visions, and among these none had as much pride of place as the notion of "confederation.""
- "The participant shares pride of place with the events themselves in our minds as we read Virgil's text."
- "The Yankee has much pride of place, believing himself the citizen of no mean city. In the heart of the Commonwealth this pride is conspicuous, and Mr. Hoar was proud of the city and county of Worcester."