Proud

/ˈpɹaʊ̯d/ · adjective

Meaning

Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified..

Definitions by Sense

1. Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
2. Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
3. (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
4. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
5. (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
6. Standing out or raised; swollen.
7. (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
8. (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

Example Sentences

We're proud of having won / to have won.

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.

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.

I was too proud to apologise.

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.

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand ioyne in hand, he ſhall not be vnpuniſhed.

Death be not proud; though ſome have called thee / Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not ſoe, [...]

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!

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Word Forms

• prouder
• more proud
• proudest
• most proud
• prowd

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