Proud
Proud , adjective
[Old English proud, prout, prud, prut, Anglo-Saxon prūt; akin to Icelandic prūer stately, handsome, Danish prud handsome. Compare Pride.]
1.
Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense
(a)
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.
O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
And shades impervious to the proud world's glare.
(b)
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.
Are we proud men proud of being proud?
2.
Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.
Of shadow proud.
Proud titles.
The proud temple's height.
Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud
Are mantled with a golden cloud.
3.
Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals. — Sir T. Browne
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.
Collocations (1)
Proud flesh (Medicine) , a fungous growth or excrescence of granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer.