Dictionary entry

Pride of place

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(idm) အသားပေးထားသည်။

Definition

pride /praÇd/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ~ (in sb/sth) ဂုဏ္။ ဂုဏ္ယူျခင္း။ ပီတိေသာမနႆ။ You should take more pride in your appearance. ❍ She looked with pride at the result of her work. ❍ He felt a glow of pride as people stopped to look at his garden. (ခ) [sing] the ~ of sth ဂုဏ္ေဆာင္။ က်က္သေရေဆာင္။ The new sports centre was the pride of the town. ၂။ [U] ( derog ) မာန။ ပလႊားမႈ။ He was puffed up with pride. ၃။ [U] သိကၡာ။ Her pride was hurt. ❍ Having to accept the money was a blow to her pride. ၄။ [CGp] ျခေသၤ့အုပ္။ ❏ sb's pride and joy [ IDM ] မ်က္႐ႈေၾကးမံု။ The baby is their pride and joy. ❏ pride comes/goes before a fall [ IDM ] ( saying ) ေစာင္မာန္ႂကြႂကြ၊ တက္လြန္းက၊ ေလွ်ာက်ေနာက္ဆံုး ရိွေခ်၏။ ❏ pride of place [ IDM ] အသားေပးထားသည္။ Your picture has pride of place on my mantelpiece. ❏ pride oneself on sth/doing sth [ PHRV ] ဂုဏ္ယူသည္။ He prides himself on always remaining calm in an emergency.

Examples

  1. You could see the pride in their faces when they talked about their daughter’s acting career.
  2. [take/feel/express pride in something] : All the craftsmen take great pride in their work.
  3. [with pride] : She can certainly look back on her performance with pride.
  4. [a sense/glow of pride] : It gave her a sense of pride to carry the flag.
  5. [hurt/wound/injure someone’s pride] : It hurts his pride that his wife has a job and he doesn’t.
  6. [restore/salvage pride] : Their win has restored national pride.
  7. Foolish pride