Definitions for Pride

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Pride pride

Spelling: [prahyd]

IPA: /praɪd/

Pride is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in Pride (deipr).

Definitions for Pride

noun

1. a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
2. the state or feeling of being proud.
3. a becoming or dignified sense of what is due to oneself or one's position or character; self-respect; self-esteem.
4. pleasure or satisfaction taken in something done by or belonging to oneself or believed to reflect credit upon oneself:
5. something that causes a person or persons to be proud:
6. the best of a group, class, society, etc.:
7. the most flourishing state or period:
8. mettle in a horse.
9. Literary. splendor, magnificence, or pomp.
10. a group of lions.
11. sexual desire, especially in a female animal.
12. ornament or adornment.
13. Thomas, died 1658, English soldier and regicide.

Idioms

1. pride and joy, someone or something cherished, valued, or enjoyed above all others:

verb (used with object)

1. to indulge or plume (oneself) in a feeling of pride (usually followed by on or upon):

Origin of Pride

before 1000; Middle English (noun); Old English prȳde (cognate with Old Norse prȳthi bravery, pomp), derivative of prūd proud

Examples for Pride

The pride and admiration Vial has for the artists who put on Cirque du Soleil is evident.

Exactly in the measure that he indulged this would his pride smart.

Dearest Madam, forgive me: it was always my pride and my pleasure to obey you.

To many of us, that smacks of censorship, the highest offense to our pride in self-publicity.

They may not receive public acclaim, but their pride in their work is as intense as their labors.

With her it was a matter of pride in having been a faithful steward.

So I was happy to see that the European theory of terroir was in action, promoting with pride the qualities of a specific region.

But pride in things wrought is no reflex of a completed task.

Kiss me, my brother, and let my tears run only from my pride and joy!

And when we had pride, we put up signs and some people would take them down.