Difference between Proud and Pride

What is the difference between Proud and Pride?

Proud as an adjective is having a too high opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious. while Pride as a verb is to take or experience pride in something, be proud of it.

Proud

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a too high opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious. Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event. Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride. Brave, valiant; gallant. Standing out or raised; swollen. Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat. Happy, usually used with a sense of honor, as in "I'm so proud to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the South.

Pride

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To take or experience pride in something, be proud of it.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children etc.The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.Show; ostentation; glory.Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.A company of lions.

We hope you now know whether to use Proud or Pride in your sentence.

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