/pɹaʊd/
OriginFrom Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English prȳtung (“pride”); prȳde, prȳte (“pride”)), probably from Old French prod, prud (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin prōde (“useful”), derived from Latin prōdesse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives prȳte, prȳtian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. Compare Old Norse prýði (“ornament; gallantry, bravery”). See also pride.
Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud).
- Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
“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 yo”
“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 p”
- That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
“That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it.”
- Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
“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”
- Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
“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 ”
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
“It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.”
- standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
“Norsus [...] walked between the lines of soldiers in their bronze armour; keen swords in their hands and proud plumes fluttering from their helmets.”
- Standing out or raised; swollen.
“After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.”
“The weld was still a bit proud of the panel, so she ground it down flush.”
- obsoleteBrave, valiant; gallant.
- obsoleteExcited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.
- A characteristical surname.
Formsprouder(comparative) · more proud(comparative) · proudest(superlative) · most proud(superlative) · prowd(alternative, obsolete) · Prouds(plural)
Source: Wiktionary