Crossword clues for proud
proud
- Hardly humble
- Pleased with oneself
- Full of spirit
- Far from humble
- __ as a peacock
- Full of self-esteem
- Word in a Marines slogan
- __ as a peacock (vain)
- Tarquin the ___
- Smug as can be
- Projecting above a surface
- Pleased with one's feats
- Parents when their punk kid gets rich
- Of lofty dignity
- Like the Marines
- Like parents of straight-A students
- Like parents at a graduation
- Like new parents
- Like new grandparents
- Like many parents at graduations
- Like a peacock, in a saying
- Like a new dad
- Kvelling, say
- Full of hubris
- Feeling self-respect — projecting from a surface
- Conceited — majestic
- Boastful, perhaps
- "Do I Make You ___" (Taylor Hicks' victory song on "American Idol")
- "Ain't Too ___ to Beg" (Temptations hit)
- "____ Mary"
- _____ as a peacock
- ___ as a peacock
- Feeling puffed up
- Like a new parent
- Walking tall
- Self-satisfied
- Haughty, arrogant
- Full of oneself
- "Death be not ___ . . . ": Donne
- Peacockish
- Highly gratifying
- Supercilious
- Overbearing
- Tarquin the ___ (final king of Rome)
- Exultant
- With head held high
- Like Mr. Darcy
- Adjective for Tarquin
- Like a peacock?
- Conscious of one’s own dignity
- Conceited - majestic
- Stuck up circular with no name on page
- Standing out from a surface
- Specialist on Underground, extremely pleased with herself
- Far from humble urge to include university
- Reminder about university being complacent
- Protruding from the surface
- Prompt to receive posh noble
- Poke about university, pleased with oneself
- Haughty and heartless pair, couple making comeback
- Dig around radioactive metal that's sticking out
- August men in provincial party rising
- Puffed up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proud \Proud\, a. [Compar. Prouder; superl. Proudest.] [OE. proud, prout, prud, prut, AS. pr[=u]t; akin to Icel. pr[=u][eth]r stately, handsome, Dan. prud handsome. Cf. Pride.]
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Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as:
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Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
Nor much expect A foe so proud will first the weaker seek.
--Milton.O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty !
--Shak.And shades impervious to the proud world's glare.
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Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country. ``Proud to be checked and soothed.''
--Keble.Are we proud men proud of being proud ?
--Thackeray.
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Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious. ``Of shadow proud.''
--Chapman. ``Proud titles.''
--Shak. `` The proud temple's height.''
--Dryden.Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud.
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Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.
--Sir T. Browne.Note: Proud is often used with participles in the formation of compounds which, for the most part, are self-explaining; as, proud-crested, proud-minded, proud-swelling.
Proud flesh (Med.), a fungous growth or excrescence of granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English prud, prute "excellent, splendid; arrogant, haughty," probably from Old French prud, oblique case of adjective prouz "brave, valiant" (11c., Modern French preux; compare prud'homme "brave man"), from Late Latin prode "advantageous, profitable" (source also of Italian prode "valiant"), a back-formation from Latin prodesse "be useful," from pro- "before, for, instead of" (see pro-) + esse "to be" (see essence). Also see pride (n.), prowess.\n
\nMeaning "elated by some act, fact, or thing" is from mid-13c. To do (someone) proud attested by 1819. Related: Proudness. "The -d- in prodesse is probably due to the influence of forms like red-eo-, 'I go back,' red-imo- 'I buy back,' etc." [OED]. The Old English form with -te probably is from or influenced by pride.\n
\nThe sense of "have a high opinion of oneself," not found in Old French, might reflect the Anglo-Saxons' opinion of the Norman knights who called themselves "proud." Old Norse pruðr, probably from the same French source, had only the sense "brave, gallant, magnificent, stately" (compare Icelandic pruður, Middle Swedish prudh, Middle Danish prud). Likewise a group of "pride" words in the Romance languages -- such as French orgueil, Italian orgoglio, Spanish orgullo -- are borrowings from Germanic, where they had positive senses (Old High German urgol "distinguished").\n
\nMost Indo-European languages use the same word for "proud" in its good and bad senses, but in many the bad sense seems to be the earlier one. The usual way to form the word is by some compound of terms for "over" or "high" and words for "heart," "mood," "thought," or "appearance;" such as Greek hyperephanos, literally "over-appearing;" Gothic hauhþuhts, literally "high-conscience." Old English had ofermodig "over-moody" ("mood" in Anglo-Saxon was a much more potent word than presently) and heahheort "high-heart." Words for "proud" in other Indo-European languages sometimes reflect a physical sense of being swollen or puffed up; such as Welsh balch, probably from a root meaning "to swell," and Modern Greek kamari, from ancient Greek kamarou "furnish with a vault or arched cover," with a sense evolution via "make an arch," to "puff out the chest," to "be puffed up" (compare English slang chesty).
Wiktionary
a. 1 gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event. 2 Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
WordNet
adj. feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride; "proud parents"; "proud of his accomplishments"; "a proud moment"; "proud to serve his country"; "a proud name"; "proud princes" [ant: humble]
having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks" [syn: gallant, lofty, majestic]
Wikipedia
Proud may refer to:
Proud is the debut solo album by Heather Small, lead singer of M People. The title track was released as the first single from the album and became a hit worldwide. "Holding On" was released as the second single.
Proud is a 2004 film directed by Mary Pat Kelly and stars veteran actor and activist Ossie Davis, in his final film performance. The motion picture was filmed in Elmira NY and Buffalo, NY. The screenplay was written by Kelly based on her non-fiction book Proudly We Served (1999).
Proud was an Official Selection of The Third Annual Buffalo International Film Festival in 2009. Mary Pat Kelly and Lorenzo Dufau (last surviving crew member) introduced the screening.
Proud is a comedy drama by John Stanley that explores issues surrounding gay pride and identity. It depicts a love story between Tom, a survivor of the Admiral Duncan bombing in 1999, and his 18-year-old boyfriend Lewis, a 2012 Olympic boxing hopeful, exploring their different attitudes toward being "Out and Proud". The play premiered at New Wimbledon Studio on April 8, 2009.
"Proud" is a song by Wayne Hector, Steve Mac and Andy Hill originally written and recorded for the British television drama series Britannia High. The song was later covered by Scottish singer Susan Boyle for her debut album I Dreamed a Dream.
In the ITV drama series the song is performed in episode 1.03 by the character Jez Tyler played by Matthew James Thomas. The song features on the 2008 Britannia High soundtrack album.
"Proud" is a song by M People singer Heather Small, which was released in May 2000, peaking at #16 on the UK Singles Chart. It was the title track from her debut album Proud, and was released as her first single becoming a worldwide hit. The song was co-written with and produced by Peter-John Vettese.
In 2005, the song was adopted as the official theme for the London 2012 Olympic bid, and was featured in a widely seen promotional video for the bid. Re-released in honour of this, and due to the fact a new M People greatest hits titled Ultimate Collection, which also included two of Small's solo songs, was released the same year, the song returned to the UK Singles Chart peaking at #33 and remaining in the Top 75 for two more weeks. The song was also re-released on The Biggest Loser soundtrack in 2006. It peaked at #34.
"Proud" is a song by British boy band JLS, which serves as the official Sport Relief charity single for 2012, and appears on the festive edition of the group's fourth studio album, Evolution. The single was released on 16 March 2012. The song was written by co-written by JLS, Daniel Davidsen, Jason Gill, Jonathan Gill, Cutfather, and Ali Tennant. The single sold nearly 45,000 copies during its first week of sales, peaking at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart.
Proud is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Albert Proud (born 1988), Australian rules football player
- Andrew Proud (born 1954), Anglican Bishop of Reading and former Area Bishop for the Horn of Africa in the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
- Bill Proud (1919–1961), English cricketer
- David Proud (born 1983), English actor born with spina bifida
- Geoffrey Proud (born 1946), Australian painter
- George Proud (born 1939), Canadian politician
- Peter Proud (1913–1989), British art director
- Ted Proud (born 1930), British postal historian and philatelic writer
PROUD (a backronym for "Pre-exposure Option for reducing HIV in the UK: immediate or Deferred") was an open-label randomised clinical trial of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London. It sought to evaluate the effectiveness of PrEP at preventing the spread of HIV in sexually active gay men in a non-controlled real-world environment. The study recruited participants at several different locations: Brighton, Birmingham, York, Manchester, Sheffield, and eight locations in London.
The trial reported PrEP to have an 86% effectiveness in preventing HIV infection.
PROUD can mean:
- People for Real, Open and United Democracy, a Bulgarian political party
- PROUD (clinical trial), a clinical trial of post-exposure prophylaxis
Usage examples of "proud".
She was so proud of her good health, poor dear, never had an illness in her long life but the once and that was more an allergy than an illness.
Pangle stood beside him, and theirs was the proud and nervous pose men struck when having ambrotypes made at the start of the war, though instead of rifle musket and Colt pistol and bowie knife, Stobrod and Pangle held fiddle and banjo before them as defining implements.
He dropped to his knees with a moan, the proud antlered head bowed in sorrow.
It may be added that, as being himself a blunt and downright Englishman, unaccustomed to conceal the slightest movement either of love or of dislike, he accounted the fair-spoken courtesy which the Scots had learned, either from imitation of their frequent allies, the French, or which might have arisen from their own proud and reserved character, as a false and astucious mark of the most dangerous designs against their neighbours, over whom he believed, with genuine English confidence, they could, by fair manhood, never obtain any advantage.
That fight would be a failure if we allowed the proudest, the most autocratic, the most conscienceless despot who ever sat upon a throne to remain in his place.
The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.
The long narrow hull slicing boldly through the sunset blush of lake water, the clean run of the wake streaming out behind her, the standard of house Barca hoisted at the crosstree of her masthead and her high castles fore and aft standing tall and proud above the papyrus banks on either hand.
Jezebel was mighty proud of her inheritance from her pappy and in a pathetic fit of beautification planted a few geranimus and pansies in the hard packed ground fronting the splintery porch of the dwelling.
Only this time, Blaise Quinn had the power to destroy him, and he could only pray that she was too proud to use it.
You may assure yourselves that, for my part, I doubt no whit but that all this tyrannical, proud, and brainsick invasion and occupation of my beloved England will yet prove the beginning, though not the end, of the ruin of that kingdom which, most treacherously, even in the midst of treating peace, began this wrongful war.
A common bravo of the canals is waylaid, among your despised graves, by the proudest Signor of Calabria!
Oga was proud of her new son, and Broud even more proud that his mate had given birth to a son so soon after their mating.
Johnson was vain, loquacious, and offensively egotistic: Jackson, on the other hand, was proud, reserved, and with such abounding self-respect as excluded egotism.
They drove about, but they went to places without knowing why, except that the carriage man took them, and they had all the privileges of a proud exclusivism without desiring them.
There was no more speech except of a proud advance towards Jerusalem upon the expiry of the truce, and the measures to be taken in the meantime for supplying and recruiting the army.