Definition of "pride"

pride¹

/pɹaɪd/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural prides
1. The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which comes across as being lofty, distant, and often showing contempt of others.
2. (having a positive sense, often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself.
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  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.
  1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 3, in The Vicar of Wakefield
  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.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
  The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
  1790-1793, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.
  Quotations
  Pride goeth before the fall.
  1912, G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables
4. 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.
  Quotations
  lofty trees yclad with summer's pride
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Zechariah 9:6
  a bold peasantry, their country's pride
  1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W. Griffin, […]
5. Show; ostentation; glory.
  Quotations
  Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war.
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii]
6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.
  Quotations
  a falcon, towering in her pride of place
  c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iv]
7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
8. Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.
9. (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
10. Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
verb
third-person singular simple present prides, present participle priding, simple past and past participle prided
1. (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
  Quotations
  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.
  1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  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.
  2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32

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1. (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.

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