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to feel like a princess

to feel like a princess

3 6.1
Receive very special care and small luxuries
  • idiom
  • Informal
translation icon : sentirse como una princesa
  • Hey, all he ever wanted was to make every girl feel like a princess.

Examples

  • I felt like a princess and a bride, and putting on that dress made me feel so damn pretty, and I didn't want to take it off ever.

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  • I hope it makes you feel like a princess.

  • Wow, I feel like a princess.

  • I know it's a bit typical, but it did make me feel like a princess.

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  • My boyfriend makes me feel like a Princess, like I'm valued, like I'm love.

  • He makes me feel like a princess, like nothing could ever hurt me.

  • Two of my favorite dresses were in that fabric, one of them a royal blue 'dressy' dress that made me feel like a princess.

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  • When she received the surprise party, she truly felt like a princess.

  • After the spa day, I walked out feeling like a princess.

  • Her dress for the gala made her feel like a princess all night long.

Synonyms

to feel like royalty
vsto feel like a princess
1 4.7

To get special treatment and attention as if you are very important

focuses on being pampered and treated with exceptional care and luxury

Antonyms

5 2.0

A person or thing that is not special

3.7

Not cared for or looked after so it becomes damaged

How Special

to feel like a princess
  • Informal
3 6.1
to feel like a pleb
  • Offensive
9.9

Surface Forms

felt like a princess past participle
feeling like a princess present participle
feels like a princess third person singular

Morphology

feel + like + a + princess

The meaning is compositionally built from 'feel' (experience) + 'like' (as if) + 'princess' (a person treated specially), so a learner who knows the constituents can infer 'feel very special or pampered' without prior exposure. This simile-based construction is common cross-linguistically and follows a straightforward, predictable pattern.

Etymology

The phrase feel like a princess comes from the image of a princess who lives in a palace, wears fine clothes, and has people who look after her every need. So saying this means 'to feel very special' or 'pampered'.