proud
/ˈpɹaʊ̯d/ adjectif B1En français : fier
- Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. · We're proud of having won / to have won.
- That makes one feel proud (of something one did) · That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it.
- Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth. · I was too proud to apologise.
- Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride. · It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.
- standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
- Standing out or raised; swollen. · After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.· The weld was still a bit proud of the panel, so she ground it down flush.
Comparatif prouder · Superlatif proudest
Dans la bibliothèque
“_I’ve_ been to a day-school, too,” said Alice; “you needn’t be so proud as all that.”
“And that’s the jury-box,” thought Alice, “and those twelve creatures,” (she was obliged to say “creatures,” you see, because some of them were animals, and some were birds,) “I suppose they are the jurors.” She said this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all.
At the end of the week Delia, sweetly proud but languid, triumphantly tossed three five-dollar bills on the 8×10 (inches) centre table of the 8×10 (feet) flat parlour.
“But I am proud of him, and now we must go to the Cold Lairs.”
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