Definition of Proud

a.1.Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense
O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty !
- Shak.
2.Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; - often with of; as, proud of one's country.
Are we proud men proud of being proud ?
- Thackeray.
2.Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.
3.Excited by sexual desire; - applied particularly to the females of some animals.
Proud flesh
(Med.) a fungous growth or excrescence of granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer.


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