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Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

55 3.7
A famous American award given each year for very good journalism, books or music
  • proper noun
  • /ˈpʌlɪtsər praɪz/
  • US
translation icon : Premio Pulitzer
  • One strength of Bogdanich's Pulitzer Prize-winning expose at the Wall Street Journal was his on-the-record reporting.
  • win the Pulitzer Prize
  • a Pulitzer Prize winner
  • a Pulitzer Prize-winning book

If they were going to give a Pulitzer Prize for meanness, he would win.

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Examples

  • The book, published in 1982, won the Pulitzer Prize and was a huge best-seller.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I was going to be a journalist, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a voice for change and justice.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Why, this story will get me the Pulitzer Prize!

    Man-Made Monster (1941)

  • We're going for the Pulitzer Prize.

    Caged Heat (1974)

  • We just saw a guy win the Pulitzer Prize in literature for writing this long piece about gender.

  • John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The distinguished Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist discusses issues of race in American literature.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Oliver La Farge's debut novel about Navajo life, Laughing Boy (1929), won the Pulitzer Prize.

    Academic text (1998)

  • This year, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking reporting on climate change.

Synonyms

award
vsPulitzer Prize
∞ 1.0

A prize given to someone for achievement or excellence

is a specific prestigious annual US honour for journalism literature and music
Pulitzer
vsPulitzer Prize
  • US
110 4.8

A top American award given every year for journalism, books, or music

is the full formal title rather than the shorter name

Surface Forms

Pulitzer Prize main

Morphology

Pulitzer + prize

Knowing 'Pulitzer' as a person's name and 'prize' as an award allows a learner to infer that this is an award named after Pulitzer, so the basic notion of 'an award' is transparent. However, the specific qualities—its prestige, American provenance, annual basis, and the particular fields (journalism, literature, music)—are not derivable from the constituents, so full meaning requires prior exposure.

Etymology

Pulitzer Prize began when newspaper owner Joseph Pulitzer left money to a university so it could give prizes to the best reporters, writers, and music creators. That's why the Pulitzer Prize today is a top American 'award' that shows someone's work is among the very best in journalism, books, or music.