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Proud
Definitions
- 1 Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
"We're proud of having won / to have won."
- 2 Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.; That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
"That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it."
- 3 Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
"I was too proud to apologise."
- 4 Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
"Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand ioyne in hand, he ſhall not be vnpuniſhed."
- 5 Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
"It was a proud day when we finally won the championship."
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- 6 standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
"Norsus [...] walked between the lines of soldiers in their bronze armour; keen swords in their hands and proud plumes fluttering from their helmets."
- 7 Standing out or raised; swollen.
"After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh."
- 8 Brave, valiant; gallant. obsolete
- 9 Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat. obsolete
- 1 having or displaying great dignity or nobility wordnet
- 2 feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride wordnet
- 1 A characteristical surname.
Etymology
From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English prȳtung (“pride”); prȳde, prȳte (“pride”)), probably from Old French prod, prud (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin prōde (“useful”), derived from Latin prōdesse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives prȳte, prȳtian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. Compare Old Norse prýði (“ornament; gallantry, bravery”). See also pride. Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud).
English surname, from the adjective proud.
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