merchant prince
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of merchant prince
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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He was a Massachusetts merchant prince, she a Michigan schoolteacher, and in 1892 they bought what would become their 17,700-acre Malibu kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
In both movies, the mermaid Ariel wants out of her widowed father’s underwater kingdom and into the arms of the earthbound merchant prince whom she rescues in a shipwreck.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
Unlike Benjamin Franklin, the runaway who reinvents himself as a printer, scientist, and statesman, or Amos Lawrence, the farm boy turned merchant prince, the confidence man remakes himself to fleece his next target.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2014
Fisher understood real estate and operations; Drexler was the merchant prince.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 20, 2014
The bald man with the jewels in his nose answered in the Valyrian of the Free Cities, "I am Xaro Xhoan Daxos of the Thirteen, a merchant prince of Qarth."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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