pride
The quality or state of being proud.
Other meanings
A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in one's work, one's family, etc).
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.
Related words
- housepride
- prideless
- pridesome
- prideworthy
- unpride
- Christmas pride
- eat one's pride
- Pride of Sussex
- gay pride
- in one's pride
- in pride
- London pride
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "prȳde".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pride” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.