take pride

1. 1.

   feel proud of

   “She took great pride in her sons”

   Synonymspride oneself

   Broaderfeel

Questions about take pride

What does take pride mean?

take pride means "feel proud of".

What is another word for take pride?

Close synonyms include pride oneself. 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 take pride a common word?

take pride 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.