pride of place

1. 1.

   the first or highest or most important or most ostentatious place

   Broaderposition

Questions about pride of place

What does pride of place mean?

pride of place means "the first or highest or most important or most ostentatious place".

Is pride of place a common word?

pride of place is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.