The meaning of PRECIOUS is of great value or high price. How to use precious in a sentence.

When Ms. Rain discovers Precious and Abdul sleeping the next morning, she frantically calls local shelters in search of a safe place for Precious and Abdul to live, but they end up staying with Ms. …

Because of her current pregnancy, Precious' principal transfers her into an alternative school, where sympathetic teacher Miss Blu Rain tries to convince her that she can have a future if she learns how …

PRECIOUS definition: 1. of great value because of being rare, expensive, or important: 2. behaving in a very formal and…. Learn more.

Define precious. precious synonyms, precious pronunciation, precious translation, English dictionary definition of precious. adj. 1. Of high cost or worth; valuable: precious jewels.

2 days ago · What makes something "precious"? From rare gems to treasured memories, explore the meaning, origins, and emotional power of this word.

If you say that something such as a resource is precious, you mean that it is valuable and should not be wasted or used badly. After four months in foreign parts, every hour at home was precious. A family …

From Middle English precious, from Old French precios ("valuable, costly, precious, beloved, also affected, finical"), from Latin pretiosus ("of great value, costly, dear, precious"), from pretium ("value, …

5 days ago · Adjective precious (comparative more precious, superlative most precious) Of high value or worth.

PRECIOUS definition: of high price or great value; very valuable or costly. See examples of precious used in a sentence.