proud

English

/pɹaʊd/

adj
Definitions
  • Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
  • Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
  • (chiefly) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
  • Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
  • (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
  • stand Standing out or raised; swollen.
  • (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
  • (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English proud inherited from Old English prūd derived from Old French prod derived from Latin *prōdis.

Origin

Latin

*prōdis

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