proud

/ˈpɹæʊ̯d/UK/ˈpɹaʊ̯d/

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

Adjective

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

Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
- We're proud of having won / to have won.
- LETO: Thufir Hawat has served House Atreides three generations. He swears you are the finest student he has ever taught. Yueh, Gurney and Duncan say the same. Makes me feel very proud.
- PAUL: I want you to be proud of me.1984, 19:33 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Leto Atreides and Paul Atreides, →OCLC
1. That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
  - That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it.
Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
- I was too proud to apologise.
- 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". We nearly crowned her we were so offended.1963, Margery Allingham, “Justifiably Angry Young Man”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 93
Synonyms:

self-confident, arrogant
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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 16:5
- Death be not proud; though ſome have called thee / Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not ſoe, [...]1609 February–August (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “[Holy Sonnets] Sonnet VI [Death Be Not Proud]”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot...
Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
- It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.
(Of things) 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.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 77
Standing out or raised; swollen.
- After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.
- The weld was still a bit proud of the panel, so she ground it down flush.
(obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
(obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

Proper noun capitalized: Proud

Proud (plural Prouds)

A characteristical surname.

proud meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

proud in Hindi

possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves: गौरव gaurav

proud in Marathi

gratified, feeling honoured, feeling satisfied: अभिमान abhimān

proud in Urdu

فاخر, گھمنڈی, خردماغ, خوددار, خودپرست, مغرور

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proud in Bengali: গর্বিত, অহংকারী, উদ্ধত, অভিমানী
proud in Telugu: మత్తము mattamu
proud in Malayalam: അഭിമാനിയായ, അഹങ്കാരിയായ
proud in Kannada: ಸ್ವಾಭಿಮಾನವುಳ್ಳ, ಆತ್ಮಗೌರವವುಳ್ಳ, ದುರಭಿಮಾನದ, ಹಮ್ಮಿನ
proud in Gujarati: માતેલું mātelũ, મગરૂબ magrūb
proud in Sanskrit: धृषु dhṛṣú, स्मेर sméra, अहंकारिन् ahaṃkārin, उदित údita
proud in Assamese: গঙাটোপ goṅatüp
proud in Arabic: فَخُور faḵūr
proud in Malay: bangga
proud in Indonesian: bangga
proud in Persian: سربلند sar-boland, سرافراز sar-afrâz, مغرور maġrur, شاداب šâdâh
proud in Thai: ภูมิใจ puum-jai
proud in Vietnamese: tự hào, hãnh diện
proud in Myanmar: ထည် htany

Examples of proud in a sentence

The fashion designer was proud to have dressed the queen for the charity event.
Even as a tenured professor, she remained proud of her blue-collar values.
The sight of him in his new uniform made us all proud.

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Forms of proud

Adjective
comparative	prouder
comparative	more proud
superlative	proudest
superlative	most proud
alternative form (obsolete)	prowd
Proper noun
plural	Prouds

Origin of proud

From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English prȳtung (“pride”); prȳde, prȳte (“pride”), see also Old English deal), probably from Old French prod, prut (“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, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud).

English surname, from the adjective proud.

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Questions about proud

What does proud mean?: Proud means feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
What is proud in Hindi?: Proud in Hindi is गौरव (gaurav). See Proud meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is proud?: Proud can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce proud?: Proud is pronounced /ˈpɹaʊ̯d/ (UK).

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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