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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pride \pride\, n. cf. as. lamprede, ll. lampreda, e. lamprey.
   zool.
   a small european lamprey petromyzon branchialis; --
   called also prid, and sandpiper.
   1913 webster
see also:
petromyzon branchialis prid sandpiper 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pride \pride\, n. as. pr=yte; akin to icel. pr=yethi
   honor, ornament, pr??a to adorn, dan. pryde, sw. pryda; cf.
   w. prydus comely. see proud.
   1. the quality or state of being proud; inordinate
      self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own
      superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which
      manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and
      often in contempt of others.
      1913 webster

            those that walk in pride he is able to abase. --dan.
                                                  iv. 37.
      1913 webster

            pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
                                                  --franklin.
      1913 webster

   2. a sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is
      beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble
      self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing;
      proud delight; -- in a good sense.
      1913 webster

            thus to relieve the wretched was his pride.
                                                  --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

            a people which takes no pride in the noble
            achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve
            anything worthy to be remembered with pride by
            remote descendants.                   --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   3. proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or
      arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct;
      insolent exultation; disdain.
      1913 webster

            let not the foot of pride come against me. --ps.
                                                  xxxvi. 11.
      1913 webster

            that hardly we escaped the pride of france. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. that of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or
      self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem,
      or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty,
      ornament, noble character, children, etc.
      1913 webster

            lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. --spenser.
      1913 webster

            i will cut off the pride of the philistines. --zech.
                                                  ix. 6.
      1913 webster

            a bold peasantry, their country's pride.
                                                  --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

   5. show; ostentation; glory.
      1913 webster

            pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   6. highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory;
      as, to be in the pride of one's life.
      1913 webster

            a falcon, towering in her pride of place. --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits;
      mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an
      excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. obs.
      1913 webster

   pride of india, or pride of china. bot. see margosa.
      

   pride of the desert zool., the camel.
      1913 webster

   syn: self-exaltation; conceit; hauteur; haughtiness;
        lordliness; loftiness.

   usage: pride, vanity. pride is a high or an excessive
          esteem of one's self for some real or imagined
          superiority, as rank, wealth, talents, character, etc.
          vanity is the love of being admired, praised, exalted,
          etc., by others. vanity is an ostentation of pride;
          but one may have great pride without displaying it.
          vanity, which is etymologically "emptiness," is
          applied especially to the exhibition of pride in
          superficialities, as beauty, dress, wealth, etc.
          1913 webster
see also:
proud pride of india pride of china margosa pride of the desert pride 
vanity 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pride \pride\, v. t. imp.  p. p. prided; p. pr.  vb. n.
   priding.
   to indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to
   plume; -- used reflexively. --bp. hall.
   1913 webster

         pluming and priding himself in all his services.
                                                  --south.
   1913 webster
see also:
prided priding 
[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pride \pride\, v. i.
   to be proud; to glory. r.
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
pride
     n 1: a feeling of self-respect and personal worth syn: pridefulness
          ant: humility
     2: satisfaction with your or another's achievements; "he
        takes pride in his son's success"
     3: the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below
        your standards ant: humility
     4: a group of lions
     5: unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem personified as one
        of the deadly sins syn: superbia
     v : be proud of; "he prides himself on making it into law
         school" syn: plume, congratulate
see also:
pridefulness humility superbia plume congratulate 
[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
151 moby thesaurus words for "pride":
   olympian detachment, olympian loftiness, acedia, anger, army,
   arrogance, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, assurance,
   assuredness, avarice, avaritia, be proud of, belief, best, bighead,
   boast, boastfulness, brag, bunch, catch, celebrate, certitude,
   circumstance, cockiness, cocksureness, colony, conceit,
   condescendence, condescension, confidence, confidentness,
   congratulate, conviction, courage, crow, deadly sin, delight in,
   diamond, dignity, domineering, domineeringness, drift, drive,
   drove, egoism, egotism, envy, faith, felicitate, find, flock,
   flower, formality, gam, gang, gasconade, gem, glory in, gluttony,
   godsend, good thing, greed, gula, haughtiness, haughty airs,
   hauteur, heraldry, herd, high horse, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity,
   honor, host, hubris, invidia, ira, jewel, kennel, litter,
   loftiness, lust, luxuria, overbearing pride, overbearingness,
   overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweening pride,
   overweeningness, pack, patronization, patronizing,
   patronizing attitude, pearl, pique, plum, plume, pod, poise, pomp,
   pomposity, positiveness, preen, pride and joy, prize, proudness,
   purse-pride, revel in, school, security, self-admiration,
   self-assurance, self-confidence, self-consequence, self-esteem,
   self-importance, self-love, self-reliance, self-respect,
   settled belief, shoal, side, skulk, sloth, smugness, snobbery,
   snobbishness, solemnity, state, stiff-necked pride,
   subjective certainty, superbia, sureness, surety, take pride in,
   toploftiness, treasure, trip, troop, trophy, trouvaille, trust,
   uppishness, uppityness, vainglory, vanity, vaunt, windfall, winner,
   wrath




[7] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
pride
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[8] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
pride, la
  zip codes: 70770


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