I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be bursting with pride/energy/excitement etc
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Your mum’s bursting with pride for you.
bruise sb’s pride/ego
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The incident had bruised his pride.
civic pride (= people’s pride in their own city )
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civic pride
have nothing to lose but your pride/reputation etc
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The working class has nothing to lose but its chains. disadvantages, restrictions etc .
take delight/pleasure/pride etc in (doing) sth
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You should take pride in your work.
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At first, he took no interest in the baby.
take pride in your appearance (= make an effort to look good )
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She seems to take no pride at all in her personal appearance these days.
wounded pride
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It was only wounded pride that stopped him from apologizing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civic
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This was well illustrated by station-building and civic pride outside the capital.
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There was no sense of responsibility, civic pride , or love of work.
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People are different and they don't want to be treated the same. Civic pride is necessarily local.
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Meredith made a speech about the civic pride the city took in its repertory company, and the importance of the drama.
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It would be an opportunity to foster civic pride and to identify talented youngsters.
great
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The Mansi family owners take great pride in ensuring guests have a memorable stay.
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No nation on earth takes greater pride in its moral heritage than the United States.
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What gives me greatest pride is that it means Courtaulds will end the century in the same business it started.
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The Crows liked willow because they took great pride in how light-colored their tipis were.
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Obviously people in the trade take a great pride in their ability to understand their customers and to predict their reactions.
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Some of the Alvin pilots take great pride in the macho aspects of the job.
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A second son, Tim, to his great pride , became a television executive.
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In itself, relatively greater pride in culture does not reveal alienation from the political order.
hurt
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Exhaustion triumphed over hurt pride and other parts of the anatomy.
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It all hurt Arthur's pride .
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And as for last night's embarrassment, hurt pride could heal, if she set her mind to it.
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It was foolish hurt pride that made me behave so coldly towards you.
national
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Finally there were the usual questions of national pride and influence.
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He devotes his life to something and then refuses to take it seriously when national pride is on the line.
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Radio might help to instil a feeling of national glory and pride , even if the substance did not amount to much as yet.
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Those whose job it is to attract investment say the issue of national pride is an old one.
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Technical and safety arguments were overlaid with the issue of national technological pride .
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First discovery of things astronomical has become a matter of national pride .
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A purely national project, however, can give a country's astronomers more freedom of choice, and assuages national pride .
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Still, there were moments when national pride asserted itself.
personal
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He takes personal pride in the area.
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It's unwise to let policy be influenced, let alone jeopardized, by outraged personal pride .
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I don't go along with that, and not just as a matter of personal pride .
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Its successful pursuit will usually lead to a sense of personal fulfilment or pride .
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Male speaker There's a lot of personal pride at stake within the parachuting world because we're on home ground.
professional
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Still, when she stepped back to survey her own handiwork, she allowed herself a moment of professional pride .
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Their professional pride is to provide information, not repress it.
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The trout stream, in particular, has a special significance for field staff and is a source of professional pride .
■ VERB
burst
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Neva's heart nearly burst within her for pride and joy at being chosen by such a noble knight.
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He had succeeded where I had quit, and I almost burst with pride .
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The day I was made sales manager I thought I'd burst with pride .
feel
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Stuart never makes me feel his pride is riding on whether we do what I suggest or what he suggests.
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If you congratulate a subordinate for completing a task on schedule, you may generate a feeling of pride and accomplishment.
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But Kirov felt a certain pride in the efficiency of his work; and the end it would achieve.
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I heard and felt affection and pride .
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The consciousness of deserving this love is felt by it as pride .
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My feeling of pride and competence turned to stark terror. 1 saw the power lines.
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He could feel the pride , but it was only a fantasy.
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Smith, in spite of himself, could feel a glow of pride creeping over his face.
glow
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Midge was glowing with pleasure and pride at the return of her beloved John and Angela.
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She glowed with pride at a graduation honor he received.
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Chest out, glowing with pride we return to base with labrador on lap and conversation stilted.
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The President glowed with pride and a sense of accomplishment after this masterstroke of personal diplomacy.
restore
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I want to restore pride in our public services.
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For those who've faced redundancy, it's also restoring their pride in a job well done.
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The public wanted a story of national scientific success, to restore pride following the launch of the Soviet Sputnik.
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And indeed it would help restore pride in animal husbandry without bankrupting farmers in the process.
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We want to restore the pride and local commitment that died with nationalisation.
show
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His grandfather, the revered village chief and part-time pastor, watches him carefully, his glances showing pride .
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He then showed her with great pride some utterly appalling objects which were used to persuade customers to buy their products.
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One, he might have wanted to show his national pride .
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Dozens of Bentley drivers came to show off their pride and joy and to take part in a rally through the countryside.
swallow
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Michelle, set on being an actress, wasn't interested at first, but in the end she swallowed her pride .
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But the argument, that they should swallow their pride and join the union, does not seem popular at present.
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He swallowed his pride and went to Frieda, told her the situation.
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Elsie kept quiet about his affair and swallowed her pride , however.
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Still, it was painful, and he struggled desperately to swallow his pride .
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Last night she had swallowed her pride and rung the Kilburn flat twice.
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There was also a cost in swallowed pride by the architects.
swell
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An unsullied safety record swelled pride in Concorde's technical achievement as the years passed.
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He swells with pride at the thought.
take
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Not one took any delight or pride in what he had done.
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No nation on earth takes greater pride in its moral heritage than the United States.
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They even took pride in developing new skills which enabled them to use difficult machines which inexperienced people could not use.
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I also reports the nations' nonpolitical attributes in which the five peoples take pride .
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It seems that we no longer take pride in our oral heritage.
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He takes pride in the place.
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The partners take pride in the high standards of service offered to clients using toning tables and sunbed facilities.
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I took a lot of pride in it.
wounded
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In that crisis, was Bizerta the real issue, or was it mutually wounded pride ?
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She contrived a look of bewilderment, bordering on wounded pride .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
glow with pride/joy/pleasure etc
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Bates himself was warm and genial, and his cohorts were having such a good time that their faces glowed with pleasure.
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Chest out, glowing with pride we return to base with labrador on lap and conversation stilted.
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Midge was glowing with pleasure and pride at the return of her beloved John and Angela.
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She glowed with pride at a graduation honor he received.
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The President glowed with pride and a sense of accomplishment after this masterstroke of personal diplomacy.
injure sb's pride/feelings etc
injured pride/feelings etc
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Apart from his injured feelings, little harm was done but subsequent protests became more violent and many landowners panicked.
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Bernice thought she detected more than a suggestion of injured pride in his rigid stance.
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Instead I retreated into a shell of injured pride.
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We sympathise with his injured pride and feel an injustice has indeed been committed.
swallow your pride
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He'll have to swallow his pride and apologize.
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I swallowed my pride and did as I was told.
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But the argument, that they should swallow their pride and join the union, does not seem popular at present.
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Elsie kept quiet about his affair and swallowed her pride, however.
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He swallowed his pride and went to Frieda, told her the situation.
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Last night she had swallowed her pride and rung the Kilburn flat twice.
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Michelle, set on being an actress, wasn't interested at first, but in the end she swallowed her pride.
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Still, it was painful, and he struggled desperately to swallow his pride.
swell with pride/anger etc
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Does the kitchen midden swell with pride when filled with undifferentiated garbage?
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He swells with pride at the thought.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bursting with pride , she stood up to receive her prize.
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Chinese students have a sense of national pride .
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gay pride
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He has too much pride to say he's sorry.
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He talked with great pride about his father's work.
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Her pride in her daughter knew no bounds.
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Her pride would not allow her to ask for help.
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In the end, the main character is destroyed by his own pride and ambition.
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We don't like failing - it hurts our pride .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A runaway hamster called Sophie takes pride of place where the school rat once roamed.
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After all these years she still couldn't resist a feeling of pride when she said that to a total stranger.
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An unsullied safety record swelled pride in Concorde's technical achievement as the years passed.
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As they obeyed, Mungo could see that the sorcerer's apprentice was a toad, puffed up with fear or pride .
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Given another chance, she wouldn't have let her stupid pride or injured dignity become a barrier between them.
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Hurt pride is a ferocious beast.
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It's unwise to let policy be influenced, let alone jeopardized, by outraged personal pride .
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It is a mark of cross-cultural identification, involving a complicated mix of pride , achievement and lingering shame.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
injured pride/feelings etc
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Apart from his injured feelings, little harm was done but subsequent protests became more violent and many landowners panicked.
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Bernice thought she detected more than a suggestion of injured pride in his rigid stance.
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Instead I retreated into a shell of injured pride.
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We sympathise with his injured pride and feel an injustice has indeed been committed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a nation we pride ourselves on our strong sense of sportsmanship and fair play.
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At Midland, we pride ourselves on establishing long term relationships with our customers.
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We pride ourselves in knowing what the insects do not know.