Usually means: Feeling satisfaction in achievements, qualities.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word proud:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. proud: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proud: Merriam-Webster
  3. proud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proud: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. proud: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Proud, prou'd, proud: Wordnik
  7. proud: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Proud, proud: Wiktionary
  9. proud: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. proud: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. proud: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Proud, proud, the proud: Dictionary.com
  13. proud: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. proud: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. PROUD (clinical trial), Proud (Britannia High song), Proud (Heather Small album), Proud (Heather Small song), Proud (JLS song), Proud (John Stanley play), Proud (Tamara Todevska song), Proud (film), Proud (play), Proud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Proud: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. proud: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. proud: Rhymezone
  19. proud: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. proud: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PROUD: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Proud: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. proud: FreeDictionary.org
  24. proud: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. proud: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. proud: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. proud: Vocabulary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Proud (emotion), proud: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Proud (emotion), proud: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. proud: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PROUD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. proud: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. proud: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. proud: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Proud: Glossary of Woodworking Terms
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
adjective:  That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
adjective:  Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
adjective:  (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
adjective:  Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
adjective:  (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
adjective:  Standing out or raised; swollen.
adjective:  (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
adjective:  (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.
noun:  A characteristical surname.

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