proud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
homophone: prowed
Forms: form: prouder
form: more proud
form: proudest
form: most proud
form: prowd
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).
Senses: examples: text: We're proud of having won / to have won.
text: LETO: Thufir Hawat has served House Atreides three generations. He swears you are the finest student he has ever taught. Yueh, Gurney and Duncan say the same. Makes me feel very proud.
PAUL: I want you to be proud of me.
ref: 1984, 19:33 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Leto Atreides and Paul Atreides, →OCLC:
text: Shepard: It's been a long journey, and no one's coming out without scars. But it all comes down to this moment.
Shepard: We win or lose it all in the next few minutes. Make me proud. Make yourselves proud.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Collector Base:
glosses: Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
examples: text: That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it.
glosses: Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
examples: text: I was too proud to apologise.
text: I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because "it was wicked to dress us like charity children". We nearly crowned her we were so offended.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Justifiably Angry Young Man”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 93:
glosses: Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
examples: text: Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand ioyne in hand, he ſhall not be vnpuniſhed.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 16:5:
text: Death be not proud; though ſome have called thee / Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not ſoe, [...]
ref: 1609 February–August (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “[Holy Sonnets] Sonnet VI [Death Be Not Proud]”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, page 35:
text: Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; / He held the human race in scorn, / And lived with all his sisters where / His father lived, in Berkeley Square. / And oh! The lad was deathly proud! / He never shook your hand or bowed, / But merely smirked and nodded thus: / How perfectly ridiculous! / Alas! That such Affected Tricks / Should flourish in a child of six!
ref: 1907, Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children, Godolphin Horne Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
examples: text: It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.
glosses: Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
examples: text: Norsus [...] walked between the lines of soldiers in their bronze armour; keen swords in their hands and proud plumes fluttering from their helmets.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 77:
qualifier: Of things
glosses: standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
examples: text: After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.
text: The weld was still a bit proud of the panel, so she ground it down flush.
glosses: Standing out or raised; swollen.
glosses: Brave, valiant; gallant.
glosses: Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.
Synonyms: sense: having reasonable sense of one's own worth
word: self-confident
sense: having excessive sense of one's own worth
word: arrogant
word: vain
word: conceited
Derived terms: color proud
color-proud
colour proud
colour-proud
do someone proud
house proud
house-proud
overproud
piss proud
proud as a peacock
proud as Lucifer
proud as Punch
proudfall
proud flesh
proud-hearted
proud-heartedly
proud-heartedness
proudling
proudly
proudness
proud-pied
proud-stomached
purse-proud
winter-proud
Related terms: pride
prude
prideful