pridenoun
uk/praɪd/us/praɪd/pride noun (SATISFACTION)
B2 [ U ] a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction that you get because you or people connected with you have done or got something good:
to feel very pleased about something or someone you are closely connected with:
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- They felt a glow of pride as they watched their daughter collect the award.
- He shows great pride in his work and has no false modesty about his success.
- The opera house is a great source of civic pride.
- You should take more pride in your work.
- His heart swelled with pride as he stood watching his son graduate.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Confidence & self-assurance
- amour propre
- aplomb
- assertive
- assertiveness training
- assured
- brass
- breezy
- dogmatic
- dogmatism
- dogmatist
- ego
- forwardness
- hold your head (up) high idiom
- positively
- safe
- sassy
- self-assertive
- self-assured
- self-belief
- self-confident
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pride noun (RESPECT FOR YOURSELF)
B2 [ U ] your feelings of your own worth and respect for yourself:
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- The athletics win provided a much-needed boost to national pride.
- wounded pride
- He was forced to swallow his pride and ask if he could have his old job back.
- Losing the competition was a real blow to her pride.
- When she left him on his own it really hurt his pride.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Confidence & self-assurance
- amour propre
- aplomb
- assertive
- assertiveness training
- assured
- brass
- breezy
- dogmatic
- dogmatism
- dogmatist
- ego
- forwardness
- hold your head (up) high idiom
- positively
- safe
- sassy
- self-assertive
- self-assured
- self-belief
- self-confident
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pride noun (FEELING OF IMPORTANCE)
[ U ] disapproving the belief that you are better or more important than other people:
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Saddening, shocking and upsetting
- a cloud hanging over sb idiom
- affecting
- arrogant
- baleful
- be cold comfort idiom
- condescend
- distressing
- dolorous
- ego trip
- egocentric
- egoism
- immodest
- imperious
- lofty
- narcissism
- officious
- poignant
- unmentionable
- upsetting
- vanity
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pride noun (LIONS)
[ C ] a group of lions
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Animal groupings
- bevy
- biomass
- brood
- colony
- covey
- drove
- eusocial
- flight
- flock
- gaggle
- herd
- hive
- menagerie
- pack
- pair
- pod
- shoal
- skein
- stud
- team
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