pride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹaɪd/
ipa: [ˈpɹ̥ʷaɪ̯d]
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: pried
Forms: form: prides
form: pryde
Etymology: From Middle English pryde, pride, from Old English prȳde, prȳte (“pride”) (compare Old Norse prýði (“bravery, pomp”)), derivative of Old English prūd (“proud”). More at proud. The verb derives from the noun, at least since the 12th century.
Senses: examples: text: He swelled with pride as he held the trophy. His family watched with pride from the bleachers.
text: He takes great pride in his work.
text: He had pride of ownership in his department.
text: My chief attention therefore was now to bring down the pride of my family to their circumstances; for I well knew that aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 3, in The Vicar of Wakefield:
text: A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or state of being proud.
A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in one's work, one's family, etc).
glosses: The quality or state of being proud.
An unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, or looks, wealth, importance, etc., which comes across as being haughty, lofty, and often showing contempt of others; exaggerated self-worth.
examples: text: Pride goeth before the fall.
ref: 1912, G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables:
synonyms: disdain
hubris
glosses: Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment that reflects such an attitude (of haughtiness); arrogance.
examples: text: Her long ginger hair is her pride.
text: The 18th century table is the pride of Mark's house/
text: My children's accomplishments are my pride.
text: And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Zechariah 9:6:
text: a bold peasantry, their country's pride
ref: 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Something or someone of which one is proud; that which is the source of self-congratulation and self-esteem (whether reasonable or arrogant), for example
examples: text: lofty trees yclad with summer's pride
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Show; ostentation; glory.
examples: text: a falcon, towering in her pride of place
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: Highest level or rank; (figurative) elevation reached; loftiness or glory.
glosses: Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
glosses: Lust or heat; sexual desire (especially in a female animal)
examples: text: A pride of lions often consists of a dominant male, his harem and their offspring, but young adult males 'leave home' to roam about as bachelors pride until able to seize/establish a family pride of their own.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A company of lions or other large felines.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pride.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
Synonyms: sense: a reasonable sense of one's own worth
word: dignity
word: self-esteem
sense: an excessive sense of one's own worth
word: arrogance
word: conceit
word: disdain
word: amour propre
word: manship
word: pride
word: self-belief
word: self-confidence
word: self-love
word: self-pride
word: self-regard
word: self-respect
word: self-worth
Hypernyms: word: worthiness
Hyponyms: word: arrogance
Derived terms: Christmas pride
eat one's pride
gay pride
in one's pride
in pride
London pride
mountain pride
point of pride
Pride
pride and joy
pride comes before a fall
pride festival
pride flag
prideful
pride goes before a fall
pride of Barbados
pride of Burma
pride of California
Pride of Erin
pride of India
Pride of India tree
pride of Ohio
pride of place
pride of the morning
pride parade
prider
pridewear
purse-pride
self-pride
straight pride
swallow one's pride
take pride
white pride
Related terms: proud
clowder
company of small felines