Collocations for "pride"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "pride" in context.
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pride
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [motherly, fatherly] pride
- [gay, lesbian, LGBT] pride
- a [gay] pride [parade, party, event]
- take great pride in my [work, appearance]
- takes excessive pride in his appearance
- took pride in [being, representing, achieving, getting]
- his pride kept him from [admitting, saying, trying]
- the [parent, child, competitor] was bursting with pride
- their faces [gleamed, glowed] with pride
- represented her [team, club, country] with pride
- swallowed his pride (and asked for help)
- the [trophy, painting, photo] took pride of place
- the [monument, building, actor] is the pride of the [town, nation]
- the [singer, girl, boy] is in the pride of youth
- a [sense, feeling, sensation] of pride
- pride comes before a fall
'pride' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
foster
- shine
- smile
- wear
- breast
- care
- damage
- French
- black
- full
- gay
- unlike
- to
- personal
- hurt
- dent
- failings
- wound
- badge
- beating
- Greek
- gush
- housewife
- ounce
- Polish
- Portuguese
- pronounce
- puff
- roar
- swell
- strut
- beam
- brim
- bruise
- burst
- gleam
- glow
- national
- swollen
- wounded
- glowing
- Swedish
- Swiss
- trench
- restore
- puncture
- punch
- pocket
- don
- x