proud
/ˈpɹaʊ̯d/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.78 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
adj
Standing out or raised; swollen.
Example Sentences
- "We're proud of having won / to have won."
- "LETO: Thufir Hawat has served House Atreides three generations. He swears you are the finest student he has ever taught. Yueh, Gurney and Duncan say the same. Makes me feel very proud. PAUL: I want you to be proud of me."
- "Shepard: It's been a long journey, and no one's coming out without scars. But it all comes down to this moment. Shepard: We win or lose it all in the next few minutes. Make me proud. Make yourselves proud."
- "That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it."
- "I was too proud to apologise."
- "I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because "it was wicked to dress us like charity children". We nearly crowned her we were so offended."
Etymology
From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English prūd, prūt (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English prȳtung (“pride”); prȳde, prȳte (“pride”), see also Old English deal), probably from Old French prod, prut (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin prōde (“useful”), derived from Latin prōdesse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives prȳte, prȳtian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. Compare Old Norse prýði (“ornament; gallantry, bravery”). See also pride. Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɹaʊ̯d/
- British English: /ˈpɹaʊ̯d/
Usage
Inflected Forms
prouder (comparative)
more proud (comparative)
proudest (superlative)
most proud (superlative)
prowd (alternative, obsolete)
Prouds (plural)