prince consort

1. 1.

   a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign

   Broaderprinceconsort

   NarrowerAlbert

Questions about prince consort

What does prince consort mean?

prince consort means "a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign".

Is prince consort a common word?

prince consort 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.