Meaning of "pride" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PRIDE

Old English prӯda; related to Latin prodesse to be useful, Old Norse prūthr stately.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PRIDE

pride  [praɪd]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRIDE

Pride is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pride in English.

WHAT DOES PRIDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pride

Pride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two common meanings. With a negative connotation, pride refers to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments, often used synonymously with hubris. With a positive connotation, pride refers to a satisfied sense of attachment toward one's own or another's choices and actions, or toward a whole group of people, and is a product of praise, independent self-reflection, or a fulfilled feeling of belonging. Philosophers and social psychologists have noted that pride is a complex secondary emotion which requires the development of a sense of self and the mastery of relevant conceptual distinctions through language-based interaction with others. Some social psychologists identify it as linked to a signal of high social status. In contrast pride could also be defined as a disagreement with the truth. One definition of pride in the first sense comes from St. Augustine: "the love of one's own excellence". In this sense, the opposite of pride is either humility or guilt; the latter in particular being a sense of one's own failure in contrast to Augustine's notion of excellence.

Definition of pride in the English dictionary

The first definition of pride in the dictionary is a feeling of honour and self-respect; a sense of personal worth. Other definition of pride is excessive self-esteem; conceit. Pride is also a source of pride.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PRIDE

PRESENT

Present

I pride

you pride

he/she/it prides

we pride

you pride

they pride

Present continuous

I am priding

you are priding

he/she/it is priding

we are priding

you are priding

they are priding

Present perfect

I have prided

you have prided

he/she/it has prided

we have prided

you have prided

they have prided

Present perfect continuous

I have been priding

you have been priding

he/she/it has been priding

we have been priding

you have been priding

they have been priding

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I prided

you prided

he/she/it prided

we prided

you prided

they prided

Past continuous

I was priding

you were priding

he/she/it was priding

we were priding

you were priding

they were priding

Past perfect

I had prided

you had prided

he/she/it had prided

we had prided

you had prided

they had prided

Past perfect continuous

I had been priding

you had been priding

he/she/it had been priding

we had been priding

you had been priding

they had been priding

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will pride

you will pride

he/she/it will pride

we will pride

you will pride

they will pride

Future continuous

I will be priding

you will be priding

he/she/it will be priding

we will be priding

you will be priding

they will be priding

Future perfect

I will have prided

you will have prided

he/she/it will have prided

we will have prided

you will have prided

they will have prided

Future perfect continuous

I will have been priding

you will have been priding

he/she/it will have been priding

we will have been priding

you will have been priding

they will have been priding

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would pride

you would pride

he/she/it would pride

we would pride

you would pride

they would pride

Conditional continuous

I would be priding

you would be priding

he/she/it would be priding

we would be priding

you would be priding

they would be priding

Conditional perfect

I would have pride

you would have pride

he/she/it would have pride

we would have pride

you would have pride

they would have pride

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been priding

you would have been priding

he/she/it would have been priding

we would have been priding

you would have been priding

they would have been priding

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you pride
we let´s pride
you pride

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to pride

Past participle

prided

Present Participle

priding

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «PRIDE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pride» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of pride

achievement · amour-propre · arrogance · best · bigheadedness · boast · choice · conceit · content · cream · delight · dignity · ego · egotism · elite · flower · fulfilment · gem · glory · gratification · haughtiness · hauteur · honour · hubris · jewel · joy · loftiness · morgue · pick · pleasure · presumption · pretension · pretentiousness · prize · satisfaction · self-esteem · self-image · self-importance · self-love · self-respect · self-worth · smugness · snobbery · superciliousness · treasure · vainglory · vanity

TRANSLATION OF PRIDE

Find out the translation of pride to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pride from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pride» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 骄傲
• Translator English - Spanish: orgullo
• English: pride
• Translator English - Hindi: गौरव
• Translator English - Arabic: فَخْر
• Translator English - Russian: гордость
• Translator English - Portuguese: orgulho
• Translator English - Bengali: গর্ব
• Translator English - French: fierté
• Translator English - Malay: Kebanggaan
• Translator English - German: Stolz
• Translator English - Japanese: 誇り
• Translator English - Korean: 긍지
• Translator English - Javanese: Bangga
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sự tự hào
• Translator English - Tamil: பெருமை
• Translator English - Marathi: गर्व
• Translator English - Turkish: gurur
• Translator English - Italian: orgoglio
• Translator English - Polish: duma
• Translator English - Ukrainian: гордість
• Translator English - Romanian: mândrie
• Translator English - Greek: περηφάνεια
• Translator English - Afrikaans: trots
• Translator English - Swedish: stolthet
• Translator English - Norwegian: stolthet

10 QUOTES WITH «PRIDE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pride.

1

Randa Abdel-Fattah

To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.

2

Richard Attias

Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride.

3

Jane Austen

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

4

Valerie Azlynn

I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.

5

Joe Baca

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

6

Matt Barr

Years go by, but the heart of what we all fight and die for at the core is the same. We fight and die for love and our family and our land and for what's ours. We do things for something as simple as pride.

7

Kumar Mangalam Birla

In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.

8

Henry Bolingbroke

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

9

Anthony Bourdain

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

10

Paul Bryant

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIDE»

Discover the use of pride in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pride and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Business

This edition closely examines cutting-edge topics like the impact of the economic crisis and political climate on business, green and socially responsible business, and sustainability.

William Pride, Robert Hughes, Jack Kapoor, 2011

Pride: Protest and Celebration

This book documents Johannesburg Pride from 1990 to 2005, and Cape Town's inagurual Pride in 1993.

Shaun De Waal, Anthony Manion, 2006

Pride: A Dictionary for the Vain

Pride: A Dictionary for the Vain No one enjoys lording over the uneducated with a pretty pointed vocabulary like the Prideful. Now each and every word they need to describe how much better they are is right there at their fingertips.

Adams Media, 2011

Pride & Ownership: A Firefighter's Love of the Job

This book serves as a guide for the seasoned veteran, the new firefighter and everyone in between, bringing them together for what it all takes to have that love for the job.

Rick Lasky, 2006

Pride

He'd acted in my best interest, as well as that of the Pride. But I wasn't ready to talk about any of it. Not yet. So I stood at the counter as I stirred sugar and creamer into my mug, listening to the chewing sounds behind me. A chair scraped the ...

Rachel Vincent, 2010

Queering Tourism: Paradoxical Performances at Gay Pride Parades

This book examines the intersection of sexuality, space and tourism. Empirical data gathered at gay pride parades is used to produce a deconstructive account of tourism.

Lynda Johnston, 2005

When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi

In When Pride Still Mattered, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the myth and the man, football, God, and country in a thrilling biography destined to become an American classic.

David Maraniss, 1999

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

As a mysterious plague falls upon the village of Meryton and zombies start rising from the dead, Elizabeth Bennett is determined to destroy the evil menace, but becomes distracted by the arrival of the dashing and arrogant Mr. Darcy.

Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, 2009

Pride

Easy-to-read scenarios, such as doing well on a test or playing well in a soccer game, provide lessons in being proud of yourself.

Kathryn Kyle, 2002

Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the ...

In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and ...

Andy Orchard, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRIDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pride is used in the context of the following news items.

Tim Ell, Vancouver Pride parade director, resigns

A member of the organization that runs the Vancouver Pride parade has resigned because he disagreed with the parade's decision to bar the ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»

Vancouver Pride Parade hosts first outdoor dry dance

People who want to celebrate the Vancouver Pride Festival sober will be able to do so in a drug and alcohol-free outdoor party called ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»

This Heterosexual Pride Parade Could Not Have Failed Any Harder …

Photos of him marching with balloons and a cardboard sign reading "Straight Pride" were posted on Facebook over the weekend. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

Flying the flag to celebrate Leeds Pride

“This undoubtedly makes a huge contribution to the local economy with thousands of people choosing to visit the city on Leeds Pride weekend. «Yorkshire Evening Post, Jul 15»

Did Anyone Make It to the Straight Pride Parade Today?

I'm not talking about the Capitol Hill Block Party. Or SeaFair. And, yes, straight people parade up and down Pike/Pine all weekend long. «TheStranger.com, Jul 15»

NoCo Pride looks to new beginning with weekend of events

After five or six years of small annual picnics, Northern Colorado Pride is upping its presence to include a series of events for the LGBTQ ... «The Coloradoan, Jul 15»

Upcoming Gay Pride Parade In Sweden Is Racist, Say Leftists

If you've ever wondered why leftists are so angry all the time, one reason is that they're exhausted by the constant demands of identity politics. «Daily Caller, Jul 15»

New West senior arrested after allegedly pouring white paint on new …

A 91-year-old New Westminster man is being investigated for mischief after witnesses saw him pour white paint on the newly-installed Pride ... «The Province, Jul 15»

City Replaces American Flag With LGBT Rainbow Flag in Honor of …

The city was proud to participate in pride weekend and will continue to celebrate our diverse community,” the statement said. Commenters took ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»

What's in Store for Pilgrim's Pride (PPC) this Earnings? - Analyst Blog

Pilgrim's Pride aims to make its business more competitive over time, with the help of its zero-based budgeting strategy and operational ... «Nasdaq, Jul 15»