proud

• prowd (obsolete)

From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English prȳtung (“pride”); prȳde, prȳte (“pride”)). Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud), probably from Old French prod, prud (“brave, gallant”) (French preux), from an assumed Late Latin *prōdis, related to Latin prōdesse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives prȳte, prȳtian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. See also pride.

• IPA^(key): /pɹaʊd/

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• Rhymes: -aʊd

proud (comparative prouder or more proud, superlative proudest or most proud)

1. gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event

   I am proud of Sivu's schoolwork.

   1. that makes one feel proud (of something one did)

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

2. possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎:

     ‘[…] 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”. […]’.

   I was too proud to apologise.

3. (chiefly biblical) having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious
   • 1611, Proverbs 16:5, King James Version

     Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

   • 1907, Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children, 'Godolphin Horne Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black':

     Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; / He held the human race in scorn, / And lived with all his sisters where / His father lived, in Berkeley Square. / And oh! The lad was deathly proud! / He never shook your hand or bowed, / But merely smirked and nodded thus: / How perfectly ridiculous! / Alas! That such Affected Tricks / Should flourish in a child of six!

4. generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride

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

5. (obsolete) brave, valiant; gallant
6. standing out or raised; swollen

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

7. (obsolete) excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat

• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

• ashamed

• pudor

From Proto-Slavic *prǭdъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈprou̯t]

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• Rhymes: -out

proud m

1. current
2. (electricity) current

• proudění
• proudící
• proudit
• po proudu
• proti proudu
• protiproud

• proud in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• proud in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989