prince of wales

1. 1.

   the male heir apparent of the British sovereign

   Broaderprince

   NarrowerCharlesEdward

Questions about prince of wales

What does prince of wales mean?

prince of wales means "the male heir apparent of the British sovereign".

Is prince of wales a common word?

prince of wales 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.