crown prince

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   a male heir apparent to a throne

   Broaderprince

Questions about crown prince

What does crown prince mean?

crown prince means "a male heir apparent to a throne".

Is crown prince a common word?

crown 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.