Word Finder - proudest

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Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.

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I am proud of Sivu’s schoolwork.

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Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.

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I was too proud to apologise.

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Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.

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Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.

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It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.

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(Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.

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Standing out or raised; swollen.

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After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.

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Brave, valiant; gallant.

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Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

The Catuli and Metelli, among the proudest nobles of Rome, were plebeians, and as such could not have been chosen to the purely patrician office of interrex, or of Jupiter.

Presbyterianism can exist and flourish without these survivals of the proudest pretensions of Romanism.

This was the kirk's proudest triumph; the countrymen of the preachers had been ruined on " St Covenant's Day."

But the proudest boast of Lord Hastings and Sir John Malcolm was, not that they had advanced the pomoerium, but that they had conferred the blessings of peace and good government upon millions who had suffered unutterable things from Mahratta and Pindari tyranny.

But the altered name of Lombard also denoted henceforth some of the proudest of Italians; and, though the Lombard speech had utterly perished their most common names still kept up the remembrance that their fathers had come from beyond the Alps.

The coalition thus fell into ruin and France occupied a more commanding position than in the proudest days of Louis XIV.

My latest proudest moment is becoming a granny in November 2004 Any advice for anyone who wants to get started in radio?

Under his successor it began to decay, and in the next generation it fell asunder and lived only in the hearts of the people as the proudest memory of past history and the prophetic ideal of future glory.

Brad calls that recordbreaking finish one of his proudest moments.

One of the things Bolle is proudest of is their ability to keep up with the latest, best technology.

One of her proudest professional achievements may be her Prime Time Emmy nominations for Outstanding Choreography, making her the youngest nominee ever included in that particular category.

Whether you want to flatter the man with a mug or t-shirt that says 'World's Greatest Dad' or 'World's Proudest Father', or you want to offer heartfelt advice in the form of a parenting book, the gift is sure to be appreciated.

Leo is known as one of the proudest signs in the world of horoscopes.