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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
- Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
- Happy, usually used with a sense of honor, as in "I'm so '''proud''' to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm '''proud''' to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the South.
- Having a too high opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
- obsolete Brave, valiant; gallant.
- obsolete Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
- Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
- Standing out or raised; swollen.
Source: Wiktionary
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