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.