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proud

(proud)

adj. proud·er, proud·est

1. Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth: proud of one's child; proud to serve one's country.

2. Occasioning or being a reason for pride: a proud moment when she received her diploma.

3. Feeling or showing justifiable self-respect: too proud to beg.

4. Filled with or showing excessive self-esteem: a proud and haughty aristocrat.

5. Of great dignity; honored: a proud name.

6. Majestic; magnificent: proud alpine peaks.

7. Spirited. Used of an animal: proud steeds.

[Middle English, from Old English prūd, from Old French prou, prud, brave, virtuous, oblique case of prouz, from Vulgar Latin *prōdis, from Late Latin prōde, advantageous, from Latin prōdesse, to be good : prōd-, for (variant of prō-, with d on the model of red-, prevocalic variant of re-, back, again; see pro-¹) + esse, to be; see es- in Indo-European roots.]

proud′ly adv.

proud′ness n.

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proudness

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The quality of being arrogant:

arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, insolence, loftiness, lordliness, overbearingness, presumption, pride, pridefulness, superciliousness, superiority.

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