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Noun: pride  prId
  1. A feeling of self-respect and personal worth
    - pridefulness
     
  2. Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements
    "he takes pride in his son's success"
     
  3. The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
     
  4. A group of lions
     
  5. Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
    - superbia
Verb: pride  prId
  1. Be proud of
    "He prides himself on making it into law school";
    - plume, congratulate

Sounds like: presence, pre, pride

Derived forms: priding, prides, prided

See also: proud

Type of: animal group, deadly sin, experience, feel, feeling, mortal sin, satisfaction, trait

Encyclopedia: Pride, Ohio