pride

The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which comes across as being lofty, distant, and often showing contempt of others.

He took pride in his work.

He had pride of ownership in his department.

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.

1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 3, in The Vicar of Wakefield:

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.

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, 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:

1790-1793, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

(having a positive sense, often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself.

having a positive sense; often with of or in; having a positive sense; often with of or in

Pride goeth before the fall.

1912, G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables:

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.

lofty trees yclad with summer's pride

1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Zechariah 9:6:

a bold peasantry, their country's pride

1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.

Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war.

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]:

a falcon, towering in her pride of place

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]:

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.

Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.

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.

(zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.

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Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).

en-noun

pride (countable and uncountable, plural prides)

shame

antonym(s) of “a sense of one's own worth”

humility

antonym(s) of “proud or disdainful behavior”

𒌨

quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc.

فَخْر

sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one

надменност

proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct

հպարտություն

that of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem

huippu

highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory

zelfbewustzijn

consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness

kiima

lust; sexual desire; especially, an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast

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.


pride

I pride myself on being a good judge of character.

Ichabod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle; and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person.

1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:

RAIB prides itself on being able to send any of its inspectors to site with sufficient investigative skills and technical knowledge to gather evidence for any type of accident.

2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:

(reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.

en-verb

pride (third-person singular simple present prides, present participle priding, simple past and past participle prided)

prides (present singular third-person)
priding (participle present)
prided (participle past)
prided (past)


pride

(zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.

kleines Neunauge

small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis)

From Middle English pryde, from Middle Low German lampride, from Medieval Latin lampreda.