Meaning

• Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.

  "I am proud of Sivu’s schoolwork."

• Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.

  "I was too proud to apologise."

• Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.

• Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.

  "It was a proud day when we finally won the championship."

• (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.

• Standing out or raised; swollen.

  "After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh."

• Brave, valiant; gallant.

• Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.