Prince of Wales

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Etymology

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Noun

Prince of Wales (plural Princes of Wales)

1. A royal title given to the male heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
   • 1953 June, “Royal Railway Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 364:

     Reassured and pleased with the railway, the Queen returned from Paddington to Slough on June 23, bringing with her the infant Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII.

   • 1983, Mary Beacock Fryer, Arthur Bousfield, Garry Toffoli, “Introduction”, in Lives of the Princesses of Wales, Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 6, column 1:

     Furthermore, two of the Princesses of Wales — Lady Anne Neville and Katharine of Aragon — became Queen through later marriages and were not consorts of Princes of Wales at the time of their coronations.

Synonyms

• Pragger-Wagger (informal, dated)

Derived terms

• Cape Prince of Wales
• Prince of Wales check
• Prince of Wales spur

Related terms

• Princess of Wales

Translations

royal title

• Arabic: أَمِير وِيلْز m (ʔamīr wīlz)
• Armenian: Ուելսի արքայազն (Uelsi arkʻayazn)
• Basque: Galesko printze
• Belarusian: прынц Уэльскі m (prync Uelʹski)
• Bengali: ওয়েলসের শাহজাদা (ẇelśer śahzada)
• Bulgarian: принц на Уелс m (princ na Uels)
• Catalan: príncep de Gal·les m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 威爾士親王／威尔士亲王 (Wēi'ěrshì qīnwáng)

• Czech: princ z Walesu m
• Danish: prins af Wales c
• Dutch: prins van Wales m
• Esperanto: princo de Kimrujo
• Estonian: Walesi prints
• Finnish: Walesin prinssi
• French: prince de Galles (fr) m
• Galician: príncipe de Gales m
• Georgian: უელსის პრინცი (uelsis ṗrinci)
• German: Prince of Wales m
• Greek: Πρίγκιπας της Ουαλίας m (Prígkipas tis Oualías)
• Hawaiian: keiki aliʻi o Wale
• Hebrew: נסיך ויילס m (nasikh veils)
• Hungarian: Wales hercege
• Icelandic: prinsinn af Wales m
• Indonesian: pangeran Wales
• Irish: Prionsa na Breataine Bige m
• Italian: principe del Galles m
• Japanese: プリンス・オブ・ウェールズ (purinsu obu u'ēruzu), ウェールズ公 (u'ēruzu-kō)
• Korean: 웨일스 공 (weilseu gong)
• Latvian: Velsas princis m
• Lithuanian: Velso princas m
• Malay: putera Wales
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prins av Wales m

  Nynorsk: prins av Wales m

• Persian: شاهزاده ولز (šâhzâde veylz)
• Polish: książę Walii m
• Portuguese: príncipe de Gales m
• Romanian: Prinț de Wales m
• Russian: принц Уэ́льский m (princ Uélʹskij), принц Валли́йский m (princ Vallíjskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: Prionnsa na Cuimrigh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: принц од Велса m

  Roman: princ od Velsa m

• Slovak: princ z Walesu m
• Slovene: valižanski princ m
• Spanish: príncipe de Gales m
• Swedish: prins av Wales c
• Thai: เจ้าชายแห่งเวลส์ (jâo-chaai-hɛ̀ng-weel)
• Turkish: Galler Prensi
• Ukrainian: принц Вельський m (prync Velʹsʹkyj), принц Валлійський m (prync Vallijsʹkyj)
• Welsh: Tywysog Cymru m
• Yiddish: ענגלישער קרוינפּרינץ m (englisher kroynprints)