PRIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pride mean? 

• PRIDE (noun)
  The noun PRIDE has 5 senses:

1. a feeling of self-respect and personal worth

2. satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements

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)

  Familiarity information: PRIDE used as a noun is common.

• PRIDE (verb)
  The verb PRIDE has 1 sense:

1. be proud of

  Familiarity information: PRIDE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of self-respect and personal worth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

pride; pridefulness

Hypernyms ("pride" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pride"):

dignity; self-regard; self-respect; self-worth (the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect)

self-esteem; self-pride (a feeling of pride in yourself)

ego; egotism; self-importance (an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others)

amour propre; conceit; self-love; vanity (feelings of excessive pride)

Antonym:

humility (a humble feeling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

he takes pride in his son's success

Hypernyms ("pride" is a kind of...):

satisfaction (the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pride"):

civic pride; civic spirit (pride in your city)

Derivation:

pride (be proud of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("pride" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Attribute:

proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A group of lions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("pride" is a kind of...):

animal group (a group of animals)

Meronyms (members of "pride"):

king of beasts; lion; Panthera leo (large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pride; superbia

Hypernyms ("pride" is a kind of...):

deadly sin; mortal sin (an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pride"):

arrogance; haughtiness; hauteur; high-handedness; lordliness (overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors)

• PRIDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pride    ... he / she / it prides   
Past simple: prided   
Past participle: prided   
-ing form: priding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be proud of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

congratulate; plume; pride

Context example:

He prides himself on making it into law school

Hypernyms (to "pride" is one way to...):

experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

pride (satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements)

 Context examples 

He said this with a very grave, sweet pride, and Arthur was much affected by it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And I make free to say, as the days went by, that I found I was taking a certain secret pride in myself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Oh! I know no harm of him; I do not suspect him of pride.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And this was Buck’s pride, too.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open when I received this letter from the gentleman himself.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He seemed to have all the life and spirit, cheerful feelings, and social inclinations of his father, and nothing of the pride or reserve of Enscombe.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She felt a woman's pride in that she had made him stop smoking.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

From every gesture and expression I could see that he was a reserved, self-contained man, with a dash of pride in his nature, more likely to hide his wounds than to expose them.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Be it known then, that Sir Walter, like a good father, (having met with one or two private disappointments in very unreasonable applications), prided himself on remaining single for his dear daughters' sake.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

John quite glowed with pride to hear her say it, and felt what a blessed thing it was to have a superior wife.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)