The meaning of PROUD is feeling or showing pride. How to use proud in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Proud.

PROUD definition: 1. feeling pleasure and satisfaction because you or people connected with you have done or got…. Learn more.

Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth: proud of one's child; proud to serve one's country.

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There are 22 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word proud, five of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

Proud definition: Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth.

Some common synonyms of proud are arrogant, disdainful, haughty, insolent, lordly, overbearing, and supercilious. While all these words mean "showing scorn for inferiors," proud may suggest …