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Webster 1913 Edition

Proud

Proud

,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Prouder
;
sup
erl.
Proudest
.]
[OE.
proud
,
prout
,
prud
,
prut
, AS.
prūt
; akin to Icel. prūðr stately, handsome, Dan.
prud
handsome. Cf.
Pride
.]
1.
Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense
; as:
(a)
Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one’s excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
Nor much expect
A foe so
proud
will first the weaker seek.
Milton.
O death, made
proud
with pure and princely beauty !
Shakespeare
And shades impervious to the
proud
world's glare.
Keble.
(b)
Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; – often with of;
as,
proud
of one's country
.
“Proud to be checked and soothed.”
Keble.
Are we proud men
proud
of being proud ?
Thackeray.
2.
Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.
“Of shadow proud.”
Chapman.
“Proud titles.”
Shak.
“ The proud temple's height.”
Dryden.
Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way
proud

Are mantled with a golden cloud.
Keble.
3.
Excited by sexual desire; – applied particularly to the females of some animals.
Sir T. Browne.
☞ Proud is often used with participles in the formation of compounds which, for the most part, are self-explaining; as, proud-crested, proud-minded, proud-swelling.
Proud flesh
(Med.)
,
a fungous growth or excrescence of granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Proud

PROUD

, a.
1.
Having inordinate self-esteem; possessing a high or unreasonable conceit of one's own excellence, either of body or mind. A man may be proud of his person, of his talents,of his accomplishments or of his achievements. He may be proud of any thing to which he bears some relation. He may be proud of his country, his government, his equipage, or of whatever may, by association, gratify his esteem of himself. He may even be proud of his religion or of his church. He conceives that any thing excellent or valuable, in which he has a share, or to which he stands related, contributes to his own importance, and this conception exalts his opinion of himself. Proud is followed by of, before the object, supra.
2.
Arrogant; haughty; supercilious.
A foe so proud will not the weaker seek.
3.
Daring; presumptuous.
By his understanding he smiteth through the proud. Job.26.
4.
Lofty of mien; grand of person; as a proud steed.
5.
Grand, lofty; splendid; magnificent.
Storms of stones from the proud temple's height.
6.
Ostentatious; grand; as proud titles.
7.
Splendid; exhibiting grandeur and distinction; exciting pride; as a proud day for Rome.
8.
Excited by the animal appetite; applied particularly to the female of the canine species.
9.
Fungous; as proud flesh.

Definition 2024

proud

proud

English

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Adjective

proud ‎(comparative prouder or more proud, superlative proudest or most proud)

  1. Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
    I am proud of Sivu's schoolwork.‎
  2. Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess:
      ‘[…] 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”. […]’.
    I was too proud to apologise.‎
  3. (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
    • 1611, Proverbs 16:5, King James Version
      Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
    • 1907, Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children, Godolphin Horne Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black:
      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!
  4. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
    It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.‎
  5. (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
  6. Standing out or raised; swollen.
    After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.‎
  7. (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
  8. Happy, usually used with a sense of honour, as in "I'm so proud to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the southern United States.

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  • See also Wikisaurus:arrogant

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Noun

proud m

  1. current
  2. (electricity) current

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Etymology

From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt ("proud, arrogant, haughty"; compare Old English prȳtung ‎(“pride”); prȳde, prȳte ‎(“pride”)). Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr ("gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine"; > Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud), probably from Old French prod, prud ("brave, gallant"; > French preux), from an assumed Late Latin *prōdis, related to Latin prōdesse ‎(“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives prȳte, prȳtian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. See also pride.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹaʊd/
  • Rhymes: -aʊd

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