pride

noun

1. 1

   The quality or state of being proud. A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in one's work, one's family, etc).

   He swelled with pride as he held the trophy. His family watched with pride from the bleachers.

   He takes great 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.

2. 2

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

3. 3

   Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment that reflects such an attitude (of haughtiness); arrogance.

   Pride goeth before the fall.

4. 4

   Something or someone of which one is proud; that which is the source of self-congratulation and self-esteem (whether reasonable or arrogant), for example

   Her long ginger hair is her pride.

   The 18th century table is the pride of Mark's house/

   My children's accomplishments are my pride.

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

5. 5

   Show; ostentation; glory.

   lofty trees yclad with summer's pride

   Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war.

6. 6

   Highest level or rank; (figurative) elevation reached; loftiness or glory.

   a falcon, towering in her pride of place

7. 7

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

8. 8

   archaicLust or heat; sexual desire (especially in a female animal)

9. 9

   A group of lions or other large felines or similar animals.

   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 a bachelors' pride until they are able to seize/establish a family pride of their own.

   a pride of lions started roaring out in the plains beyond our ring of hills

   Quite recently near Nzongezi, one of the men out shooting for meat, ran into a "pride" of lions, shot the male first, a mistake, and the lioness was upon him and had him down before he could shoot again.

   While traveling in their station wagon, they saw a pride of lions feasting on a zebra.

10. 10

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

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:pride.

verb

1. 1

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

   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.

   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.

noun

1. 1

   The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.

Forms

plural

prides

past tense

prided

past participle

prided

present participle

priding

third person singular

prides