black prince

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsEdward

   BroaderPrince of Wales

Questions about black prince

What does black prince mean?

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

What is another word for black prince?

Close synonyms include Edward. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black prince a common word?

black prince is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.