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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.

the fictional character

Basque: printze xarmant
Catalan: príncep encantador m, príncep blau m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 白馬王子 (zh), 白马王子 (zh) ‎(báimǎ wángzi)
Dutch: prins op het witte paard m
Esperanto: ĉarma princo
Finnish: unelmien prinssi, satuprinssi
French: prince charmant m
Greek: πριγκιπόπουλο (el) n ‎(prinkipópoulo), πρίγκιπας του παραμυθιού m ‎(prínkipas tou paramythioú)
Hungarian: szőke herceg
Japanese: 王子様 ‎(ōji-sama)
Korean: 백마 탄 왕자 ‎(baegma tan wangja)
Latvian: sapņu princis m

romantically ideal man

Catalan: príncep encantador m, príncep blau m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 如意郎君 ‎(jyu⁴ ji³ long⁴ gwan¹)

Mandarin: 白馬王子 (zh), 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 m
Finnish: unelmien prinssi
French: prince charmant m
German: Märchenprinz m
Greek: πριγκιπόπουλο (el) n ‎(prinkipópoulo), πρίγκιπας του παραμυθιού m ‎(prínkipas 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)
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
Vietnamese: bạch mã hoàng tử