Other forms: prides
Pride is the warm feeling of having done something worth respect. Watching your child on a stage, or standing back from a job well finished.
The word runs from good to bad along a single line. Taking pride in your work is a virtue; pride that will not let you apologise is the oldest of the deadly sins, which is why the proverb warns that it comes before a fall. It also names a group of lions, and since the 1970s it has named the celebration of LGBT identity. The adjective proud covers all the good senses.
1nounprideSatisfaction taken in your own achievements or those of people close to you.~87%
“She spoke of her students with obvious pride.”
2nounexcessivelyAn excessively high opinion of yourself.~2%
“His pride would not let him ask for help.”
3noungroupA group of lions.~11%
“The pride moved off at dusk.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 9 sentences found in the wild and placed 9 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Pride is the noun English built from proud. Old English prȳde is derived from prūd, and the verb, as in pride yourself on, came back out of the noun in the twelfth century.
Old English
prȳde
Middle English
pryde
English, today
pride
Built from
From Middle English pryde, pride, from Old English prȳde, prȳte (“pride”) (compare Old Norse prýði (“bravery, pomp”)), derivative of Old English prūd (“proud”). More at proud. The verb derives from the noun, at least since the 12th century.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA