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 In the last year, the princess has been making a slow return to life in the public eye. Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 14 June 2025 Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Disney is known for making girls, young and old, want to be a princess in real life. Essence, 10 June 2025 Hornet, the princess of Hallownest, will be more agile and quick than The Knight, and will face speedier enemies. Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025 Lana Del Rey, Rosalina Rosalina is the newest and most ethereal of the Nintendo princesses, and Del Rey’s otherworldly quality feels like an apt fit. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for princess
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Noun
  • 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
  • THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.
    Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
Noun
  • And what is Winnie but a great diva’s part—Beckett’s greatest?
    Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • And then, like a rousing 11 o’clock number in the awards race, wild interpersonal diva drama!
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 June 2025

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“Princess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/princess. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.

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