Prince Charming

English

Prince Charming of Sleeping Beauty, a print drawing from the late-19th-century book Mein erstes Märchenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany

Calque of French Roi Charmant (“Charming King”).

Prince Charming (plural Prince Charmings or Princes Charming)

A fictional heroic prince in various fairy-tales.
(by extension) A heterosexual woman's prototypical ideal romantic partner, especially but not necessarily if he embodies common characteristics of the fictional princes, such as being courageous or chivalrous.
She's still unmarried because she is waiting for her Prince Charming... and he may not exist.
- 1979, Will Jennings (lyrics), “Street Life”, performed by The Crusaders ft. Randy Crawford:
  There's always love for sale / A grown up fairy tale / Prince charming always smiles / Behind a silver spoon

the fictional character

Basque: printze xarmant
Catalan: príncep encantador m, príncep blau (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 白馬王子／白马王子 (zh) (báimǎ wángzi)
Danish: prins på den hvide hest
Dutch: prins op het witte paard m
Esperanto: ĉarma princo
Finnish: unelmien prinssi, satuprinssi
French: prince charmant (fr) m
Greek: πριγκιπόπουλο (el) n (prigkipópoulo), πρίγκιπας του παραμυθιού m (prígkipas tou paramythioú), γοητευτικός πρίγκιπας m (goïteftikós prígkipas)
Hungarian: szőke herceg
Italian: principe azzurro
Japanese: 王子様 (ōji-sama)
Korean: 백마 탄 왕자 (baengma tan wangja)
Latvian: sapņu princis m
Lithuanian: svajonių princas m
Norwegian: drømmeprins
Portuguese: príncipe encantado m
Romanian: Făt-Frumos (ro) m
Romansch: prinzi da paraula m
Russian: прекра́сный принц m (prekrásnyj princ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: принц на белом коњу m
Roman: princ na belom konju m
Spanish: príncipe azul m
Swedish: drömprins
Turkish: yakışıklı prens

romantically ideal man

Catalan: príncep encantador m, príncep blau (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 如意郎君 (jyu⁴ ji³ long⁴ gwan¹), 白馬王子, 白马王子 (baak⁶ maa⁵ wong⁴ zi²)
Mandarin: 白馬王子／白马王子 (zh) (báimǎ wángzi), 如意郎君 (zh) (rú yì láng jūn)
Danish: prinsen på den hvide hest c, drømmeprins c
Dutch: prins op het witte paard m, droomprins (nl) m
Finnish: unelmien prinssi
French: prince charmant (fr) m
German: Märchenprinz (de) m
Greek: πριγκιπόπουλο (el) n (prigkipópoulo), πρίγκιπας του παραμυθιού m (prígkipas tou paramythioú)
Italian: principe azzurro m, principe azzurro sul cavallo bianco m
Japanese: 王子様 (ōji-sama)
Norwegian: eventyrprinsen m
Polish: książę z bajki (pl) m
Portuguese: príncipe encantado m
Romanian: Făt-Frumos (ro) m
Russian: прекра́сный принц m (prekrásnyj princ), ска́зочный принц m (skázočnyj princ), принц на белом коне (ru) (princ na belom kone)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: принц на белом коњу m
Roman: princ na belom konju m
Spanish: príncipe azul m
Swedish: drömprins c, prins charmig
Turkish: yakışıklı prens
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