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say it: prowd
proud is an adjective meaning "feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride". It carries 2 recorded senses.
having or displaying great dignity or nobility
“a gallant pageant”
“lofty ships”
“majestic cities”
“proud alpine peaks”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for proud come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.