Definition of Proud

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Definition of Proud

Proud

Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense

Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.

Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.

Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.

Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.

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Proud Quotations

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Ronald Reagan

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
Bill Cosby

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
Kurt Cobain

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael Jackson

Proud Translations

proud in Afrikaans is trots
proud in Dutch is fier, prat, trots
proud in French is fier
proud in Italian is fierezza
proud in Latin is superbus, celsus
proud in Portuguese is orgulhoso
proud in Spanish is orgulloso, altanero

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