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Etymology
From Middle English pride, from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "Latinx" is not valid. See WT:LOS., 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.
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pride (countable and uncountable, plural prides)
- The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.
- (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
- He took pride in his work.
- He had pride of ownership in his department.
- (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by William Blake and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
- Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.
- (Can we date this quote by G. K. Chesterton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Introduction to Aesop's Fables
- Pride goeth before the fall.
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- lofty trees yclad with summer's pride
- (Can we date this quote by Bible and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Zech. ix. 6
- I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
- (Can we date this quote by Goldsmith and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- a bold peasantry, their country's pride
- Show; ostentation; glory.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war.
- Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
- to be in the pride of one's life.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- a falcon, towering in her pride of place
- Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
- Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
- (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
- 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) The small European lamprey species Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template..
- Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
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quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc.
- Arabic: كِبْرِيَاء f (kibriyāʔ)
- Armenian: գոռոզություն (hy) (goṙozutʻyun)
- Asturian: arguyu m
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: го́нар m (hónar), пы́ха f (pýxa), гарды́ня f (hardýnja), фанабэ́рыя f (fanabéryja), ганары́стасць f (hanarýstascʹ)
- Catalan: orgull (ca)
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自負/自负 (zh) (zìfù), 自负 (zh) (zìfù), 自大 (zh) (zìdà), 妄自尊大 (zh) (wàngzì-zūndà)
- Czech: pýcha (cs) f
- Dutch: trots (nl), fierheid (nl), eergevoel (nl) n
- Estonian: ülbus, kõrkus
- Finnish: ylpeys (fi)
- French: orgueil (fr) m, fierté (fr)
- Galician: orgullo (gl) m
- Georgian: სიამაყე (siamaq̇e), ამპარტავნება (amṗarṭavneba)
- German: Hochmut (de) m
- Greek: υπερηφάνεια (el) f (yperifáneia)
- Hebrew: גאווה \ גַּאֲוָה (he) f (gaavá)
- Hindi: आरोह (hi) m (āroh), ऊंचाई f (ūñcāī), ऐंठ (hi) f (a͠iṭh)
- Hungarian: büszkeség (hu)
- Icelandic: stolt n
- Irish: mórchúis f, anumhlaíocht f
- Italian: superbia (it) f, orgoglio (it)
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- Japanese: 自慢 (ja) (じまん, jiman), 傲慢 (ja) (ごうまん, gōman)
- Korean: 자만 (ko) (jaman), 자부심 (ko) (jabusim), 교만 (ko) (gyoman)
- Latvian: lepnība f, lepnums m
- Norwegian: stolthet (no) m
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: غرور (fa) (ğorur)
- Polish: pycha (pl) f
- Portuguese: orgulho (pt) m
- Romanian: îngâmfare (ro) f, mândrie (ro) f, trufie (ro)
- Russian: горды́ня (ru) f (gordýnja), спесь (ru) f (spesʹ), зано́счивость (ru) f (zanósčivostʹ), высокоме́рие (ru) n (vysokomérije), чва́нство (ru) n (čvánstvo), го́нор (ru) m (gónor)
- Scottish Gaelic: uaill f
- Slovak: pýcha f
- Slovene: ponòs (sl) m, nadutost f
- Southern Sami: tjievlies-voete
- Spanish: orgullo (es) m
- Swedish: stolthet (sv) c
- Tagalog: karangalan
- Turkish: kibir (tr), gurur (tr)
- Tuvan: чоргаарал (çorgaaral)
- Ukrainian: горди́ня f (hordýnja), го́нор m (hónor), пиха́ f (pyxá), чва́нство (uk) n (čvánstvo), фуду́лія f (fudúlija)
- Walloon: firté (wa) f
- Welsh: balchder m
- Yiddish: גאווה (gayve)
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sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one
- Arabic: فَخْر m (faḵr)
- Armenian: հպարտություն (hy) (hpartutʻyun)
- Belarusian: го́рдасць f (hórdascʹ)
- Bulgarian: го́рдост (bg) f (górdost)
- Catalan: orgull (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᎠᏢᏉᏛ (atlvquodv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 驕傲/骄傲 (zh) (jiāo'ào), 骄傲 (zh) (jiāo'ào), 自尊 (zh) (zìzūn)
- Czech: hrdost f
- Danish: stolthed c
- Dutch: trots (nl), eigendunk (nl), zelfvoldaanheid (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: ülbus
- Faroese: erni n, stoltleiki m
- Finnish: ylpeys (fi)
- French: fierté (fr) f, orgueil (fr) m
- Galician: orgullo (gl) m
- German: Stolz (de) m
- Greek: αξιοπρέπεια (el) f (axioprépeia)
- Hebrew: גאווה \ גַּאֲוָה (he) f (gaavá)
- Hindi: गर्व (hi) m (garv)
- Hungarian: önbecsülés (hu), önérzet (hu)
- Icelandic: stolt n
- Irish: uaill f, mórtas m
- Italian: orgoglio (it) m
- Japanese: 誇り (ja) (ほこり, hokori), プライド (ja) (puraido)
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- Khmer: មោទនភាព (moutean pʰiep)
- Korean: 자랑 (ko) (jarang)
- Kurdish:
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- Latin: superbia f
- Latvian: lepnums m
- Macedonian: гордост f (gordost)
- Maori: whakahī
- Norwegian: stolthet (no) m
- Occitan: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: duma (pl)
- Portuguese: orgulho (pt) m
- Romanian: orgoliu (ro) n
- Russian: го́рдость (ru) f (górdostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: uaill f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гордост f, понос m
- Roman: gordost (sh) f, ponos (sh) m
- Slovak: hrdosť f
- Slovene: ponos (sl) m
- Spanish: orgullo (es) m
- Swedish: stolthet (sv) c
- Turkish: gurur (tr)
- Ukrainian: го́рдість f (hórdistʹ)
- Yiddish: שטאָלץ (shtolts)
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proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 傲慢 (zh) (àomàn)
- Chuukese: namanam tekia
- Dutch: trots (nl), fierheid (nl), hoogmoed (nl), eigenwaan (nl), kapsones (nl) m
- Estonian: ülbus
- Finnish: ylpeys (fi), kopeus (fi)
- French: fierté (fr) f, orgueil (fr) m
- Galician: soberbia (gl) f, fachenda (gl) f
- German: Hochmut (de) m, Trotz (de) m, Dünkel (de) m
- Greek: υπεροψία (el) f (yperopsía), περιφρόνηση (el) f (perifrónisi), εγωισμός (el) (egoïsmós), οίηση (el) f (oíisi)
- Hungarian: gőg (hu), dölyf (hu)
- Irish: borrachas m, uaill f, mórtas m
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- Japanese: 傲慢 (ja) (ごうまん, gōman)
- Latvian: lepnība f, iedomība f
- Norwegian: stolthet (no) m
- Portuguese: soberba (pt) f, nariz empinado m
- Russian: горды́ня (ru) f (gordýnja), спесь (ru) f (spesʹ), зано́счивость (ru) f (zanósčivostʹ), высокоме́рие (ru) n (vysokomérije), чва́нство (ru) n (čvánstvo)
- Scottish Gaelic: uaill f
- Spanish: soberbia (es) f
- Swedish: stolthet (sv) c
- Turkish: kibir (tr)
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that of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem
highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory
- Dutch: (please verify) bloei (nl), (please verify) bloeitijd (nl), (please verify) fleur (nl), (please verify) hoogtepunt (nl) n, (please verify) piek (nl), (please verify) (volle) glorie
- Finnish: huippu (fi)
- Hungarian: csúcs (hu), csúcspont (hu), dele (hu), virágja
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- Russian: расцве́т (ru) m (rascvét), разга́р (ru) m (razgár)
- Swedish: höjdpunkt (sv), topp (sv)
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consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness
lust; sexual desire; especially, an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast
small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis)
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Verb
pride (third-person singular simple present prides, present participle priding, simple past and past participle prided)
- (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
- I pride myself on being a good judge of character.
- 1820 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
- 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.
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take or experience pride in something
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