proud

Meaning

Adjective

• Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
• Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
• Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
• Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
• (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
• Standing out or raised; swollen.
• Brave, valiant; gallant.
• Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

Related

Opposite words

• ashamed

Origin

• From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt (compare Old English prȳtung; prȳde, prȳte). Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud), probably from Old French prod, prud (modern French preux), from Late Latin prode ("useful"), derived from Latin prosum; however, the Old English umlaut derivatives prȳte, prȳtian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. See also pride.