proud

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

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

   We're proud of having won / to have won.

2. 2
   adj

   Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.

   I was too proud to apologise.

3. 3
   adj

   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.

4. 4
   adj

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

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

5. 5
   adj

   standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.

   Norsus [...] walked between the lines of soldiers in their bronze armour; keen swords in their hands and proud plumes fluttering from their helmets.

6. 6
   adj

   Standing out or raised; swollen.

   After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.

7. 7
   adj

   having or displaying great dignity or nobility

8. 8
   adj

   feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth

Etymology

From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English prȳtung (“pride”); prȳde, prȳte (“pride”)), probably from Old French prod, prud (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin prōde (“useful”), derived from Latin prōdesse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives prȳte, prȳtian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. Compare Old Norse prýði (“ornament; gallantry, bravery”). See also pride. Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, sta…