Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.
- noun Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association.
- noun Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.
- noun A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class.
- noun The most successful or thriving condition; prime.
- noun An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.
- noun Mettle or spirit in horses.
- noun Zoology A group of lions, usually consisting of several related females and their offspring and a small number of unrelated adult males.
- noun A flamboyant or impressive group.
- transitive verb To indulge (oneself) in a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of lamprey; especially, the mud-lamprey. See
Ammocætes and lamprey. Alsosand-pride and pride of the Isis. - To indulge in pride, elation, or self-esteem; value (one's self): used reflexively.
- To spread, as a bird its tail-feathers.
- To be proud; exult; glory: sometimes with indefinite it.
- noun The larval lamprey.
- noun The state or condition of being proud, or a feeling of elation or exultation on account of what one is or has or is connected with, in any sense.
- noun A becoming and dignified sense of what is due to one's personality, character, or position; firm self-respect.
- noun A reasonable feeling of elation or exultation in view of one's doings, achievements, or possessions, or those of a person or persons intimately connected with one.
- noun Haughty or arrogant bearing or conduct; overbearing treatment of others; insolent exultation; vainglorying.
- noun Exuberance of animal spirits; warmth of temperament; mettle.
- noun Hence Lust; sexual desire; especially, the excitement of the sexual appetite in a female animal.
- noun Wantonness; extravagance; excess; hence, impertinence; impudence.
- noun That which is or may be a cause of pride; that of which men are proud.
- noun Highest pitch; elevation; loftiness; the best or most admired part of a thing; the height; full force, extent, or quantity.
- noun Decoration; ornament; beauty displayed; specifically, in heraldry, a term applicable to the peacock, turkey-cock, and other birds which spread their tails in a circular form, and drop their wings: as, a peacock in his pride.
- noun Splendid show; ostentation.
- noun A company or group (of lions).
- noun Lameness; impediment.
- noun Synonyms Pride, Egotism, Vanity, etc. (see
egotism ), self-exaltation, self-sufficiency, vainglory. - noun Pride, Arrogance, Presumption, etc. (see
arrogance ), lordliness, hauteur. - noun Ornament, glory, splendor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small European lamprey (
Petromyzon branchialis ); -- called alsoprid , andsandpiper . - transitive verb To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
- intransitive verb rare To be proud; to glory.
- noun The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
- noun A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
- noun Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
- noun That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
- noun Show; ostentation; glory.
- noun Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.
- noun obsolete Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
- noun (Bot.) See
Margosa . - noun (Zoöl.) the camel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
proud ; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and oftencontempt of others. - noun A sense of one's own
worth , and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; loftyself-respect ; nobleself-esteem ; elevation of character;dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. - noun Proud or
disdainful behavior or treatment;insolence orarrogance of demeanor;haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain;hubris . - noun That of which one is
proud ; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant andpresumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children etc. - noun zoology The small European
lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I. i.172 (320,1) strain'd pride] The oldest copy reads _strayed pride_; that is, _pride exorbitant_; pride passing due bounds.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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In line 508 ‘pride’ hardly gives full expression to the idea of _wlence, _ which signifies not only _pride_, but _vain pride, of empty end_.
The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919
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Temperate men are not governed in their religious researches by the pride of peculiarity nor the influence of party views, and a faithful trial ought to have been made in order to convince of error before the charge of _pride of peculiarity_, or the influence of party views, could with propriety have been made.
A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation Hosea Ballou 1811
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_A just pride, a proper and becoming pride_, are terms which we daily hear from
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. William Wilberforce 1796
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And your leSbn, fo far from teaching humility, fcems rather to juftify what you term pride*
A father's instructions; moral tales, fables, and reflections 1781
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But his pride is already chasing after the mope, dragging all the rest of him along with it.
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Whether that means going to food stamps, or taking advantage of some other program for the indigent, swallowing your pride is a much better option than running up a ton of debt.
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But his pride is already chasing after the mope, dragging all the rest of him along with it.
Lance Mannion: 2010
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Better fall, with what you call pride, than stand with meanness.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Between Blackburn Hill and Enderly Road very little social intercourse existed and, as the Road people resented what they called the pride of Blackburn Hill, there was a good deal of bad feeling between the two districts.
sonofgroucho commented on the word pride
Pride goes before a fall.
November 30, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word pride
As a verb, for me this requires its object to be reflexive: Mary prided herself on her wit. (So also avail, behave, busy, comport, ingratiate, perjure) The OED however cites a number of modern instances of non-reflexive objects, e.g.
Mr Keating has long prided his record of bringing Budgets in on target . . .
He prided his character and dignity over failure and temporary constraints.
My husband prides us greatly.
These all strike me as errors. I will a little reluctanctly concede the grammaticality of pride in + gerund-participial clause, as in A liberal such as Sally Watson, who prided in, among her broad-minded accomplishments, having had a Puerto Rican husband and two black lovers. Even that I don't like. I might say it, but I would still strongly prefer prided herself on having. However, this appears to be a dialect difference.
June 19, 2009
brobbins commented on the word pride
excellency
July 23, 2009