Definitions for prides

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prides pride

Spelling: [prahyd]

IPA: /praɪd/

Prides is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in prides (deiprs).

Definitions for prides

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.

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 prides

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

Examples for prides

Instead, it is prideful ignorance—an eagerness to go off the fiscal cliff to show the world that gravity does not exist.

Miss Hawes took his arm, with a soft, prideful sigh, and they moved off.

"And there ain't another like it in the whole world," went on the prideful Hodges.

An early Zionist leader, prideful, pugnacious, Ussishkin headed the Jewish National Fund for nearly 20 years.

At the moment the roads seemed quite deserted, and their little roadster hummed along with all its prideful speed and importance.

One of the central reasons entrepreneurial capitalism works well is that humans are a prideful species.

Cab drivers hailed him as a likely fare, to his prideful content.

"You can revile me as much as you like now, Nan," he said, with prideful humility.

The question was put slowly, but the reply came with prompt and prideful certitude.

His harshest words of criticism were aimed at those who were prideful.