What is the degree of a prime ideal?

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How is the degree of a prime ideal of an algebraic number field defined?

An algebraic number field is a finite extension of $\mathbb{Q}$, right?

A prime ideal is an ideal in a ring, i.e., a subgroup that defined a partition of the ring into residue classes, where its residue class ring is an integral domain, right?

But what is the degree of a prime ideal?