proud

UK /pɹaʊd/ US /pɹaʊd/
adj 5name 1

Definitions

adj

1

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 you to be proud of me.

2

Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.

That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it.

3

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 wicked to dress us like charity children". We nearly crowned her we were so offended.

4

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, [...]

5

Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.

It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.

name

1

A characteristical surname.

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