pride oneself

1. 1.

   feel proud of

   “She took great pride in her sons”

   Synonymstake pride

   Broaderfeel

Questions about pride oneself

What does pride oneself mean?

pride oneself means "feel proud of".

What is another word for pride oneself?

Close synonyms include take pride. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pride oneself a common word?

pride oneself 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.