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merchant prince

noun

  1. a very wealthy or influential merchant.


merchant prince

noun

  1. a very wealthy merchant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of merchant prince1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

He was a Massachusetts merchant prince, she a Michigan schoolteacher, and in 1892 they bought what would become their 17,700-acre Malibu kingdom.

“I was the son of this kind of displaced merchant prince,” Mr. Goldman told The Times in 1993.

In both movies, the mermaid Ariel wants out of her widowed father’s underwater kingdom and into the arms of the earthbound merchant prince whom she rescues in a shipwreck.

“I learned to be a merchant prince in women’s lingerie,” he said.

With the arrival of Mr. Drexler — who soon became known as the “merchant prince” — came the pocket tees, the khakis and the sweaters that would signal an end to the brand’s youth.

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