pride

IPA: prˈaɪd

noun

  • The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which comes across as being lofty, distant, and often showing contempt of others.
  • (having a positive sense, often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself.
  • Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.
  • That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
  • Show; ostentation; glory.
  • Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.
  • Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
  • Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.
  • (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
  • (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
  • A festival primarily for LGBT people, usually organized annually within a city.
  • A movement encouraging a positive approach to personal identity amongst LGBT people.
  • A surname.
  • Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”). [A festival primarily for LGBT people, usually organized annually within a city.]

verb

  • (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
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Examples of "pride" in Sentences

  • Their overweening pride was seen.
  • Pride returns in place of vainglory.
  • It is the pride of the modern church.
  • Please spread the word and the pride.
  • The officer's pride remains unshaken.
  • The miter denoted atonement for pride.
  • He was considered the pride of the village.
  • Self pity is the voice of pride in the heart of the weak.
  • It can symbolize the love and pride the giver feels for the recipient.
  • Once speaking on the atrocities in Khojaly he said insolently that he feels a sense of pride.

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