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The definition of proud is having self-pride, being arrogant, or feeling great joy and honor.

(adjective)

An example of proud is the honorable head of a happy family.
An example of proud is a person who won't admit they are wrong after being proven so.
An example of proud is a father holding his baby for the first time.

See proud in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

having or showing a proper pride in oneself, one's position, one's family, etc.
having or showing an overweening opinion of oneself, one's position, etc.; arrogant; haughty
feeling or showing great pride or joy, as from being honored
that is an occasion or cause of pride; highly gratifying
arising from or caused by pride; presumptuous
stately; splendid: a proud fleet
spirited; of high mettle: a proud stallion
Obsolete valiant

Origin: ME < OE prud < OFr < LL prode, beneficial, back-form. < L prodesse, to be useful < prod-, var. of pro-, pro- + esse, to be: for IE base see is

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proudly adverb

See proud in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective proud·er, proud·est

Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth: proud of one's child; proud to serve one's country.
Occasioning or being a reason for pride: “On January 1, 1900, Americans and Europeans greeted the twentieth century in the proud and certain belief that the next hundred years would make all things possible” (W. Bruce Lincoln).
Feeling or showing justifiable self-respect.
Filled with or showing excessive self-esteem.
Of great dignity; honored: a proud name.
Majestic; magnificent: proud alpine peaks.
Spirited. Used of an animal: proud steeds.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old English prūd

Origin: , from Old French prou, prud, brave, virtuous

Origin: , oblique case of prouz

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *prōdis

Origin: , from Late Latin prōde, advantageous

Origin: , from Latin prōdesse, to be good

Origin: : prōd-, for (variant of prō-, with d on the model of red-, prevocalic variant of re-, back, again; see pro-¹)

Origin: + esse, to be; see es- in Indo-European roots

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