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nouna female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)type of:
Definition that contains princess
- george Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)
- psyche (Greek mythology) a beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul
- rani (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja
- andromeda (Greek mythology) an Ethiopian princess and daughter of Cassiopeia; she was fastened to a rock and exposed to a sea monster that was sent by Poseidon, but she was rescued by Perseus and became his wife
- medea (Greek mythology) a princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father
- dido (Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas
- archduchess a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria
- maharani a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja
- sleeping beauty fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss
- maharanee a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja