Proud

Definition

proud /praƱd/ adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ( approv ) (က) ~ (of sb/ sth); ~ (to do sth/ that…) ဂုဏ္ယူေသာ။ ေမာ္ႂကြားေသာ။ a proud father ❍ She's very proud of her new car. ❍ They were rather proud of their success/ of being so successful. ❍ They were proud to be chosen/ that they had been chosen for the team. ❍ Your achievements are something to be proud of. ❍ ( ironic ) I hope you feel proud of yourself— you've ruined the game! (ခ) ေမာ္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ျမတ္ႏိုးေသာ။ It was a proud day for us when we won the trophy. ❍ The portrait was his proudest possession. (ဂ) မာနရိွေသာ။ ေအာက္မက်ဳိ႕လိုေသာ။ မာန္မခ် ေသာ။ She had been too proud to ask for help. ❍ They are a proud and independent people. ၂။ ( derog ) ေမာက္မာ ေသာ။ ပလႊားေသာ။ မာနႀကီးေသာ။ စိတ္ႀကီးဝင္ေသာ။ She was too proud to admit she was wrong. ❍ He is too proud now to be seen with his former friends. ၃။ ( fml ) ထည္ဝါေသာ။ ခံ့ညားေသာ။ The statue stands tall and proud in the main square. ၄။ ~ (of sth) ( Brit techn ) ေမာက္ေသာ။ The cement should be/stand proud of the surface and then be smoothed down later. See also HOUSE-PROUD ❏ do sb proud [ IDM ] ၁။ ( infml ) အလွ်ံပယ္ေကြၽးေမြး ျပဳစု သည္။ The college did us proud at the centenary dinner. ၂။ ( US ) ဂုဏ္ယူဖြယ္ျဖစ္သည္။ Her calmness during the crisis did her proud. ❏ proudly adv ဝင့္ႂကြားစြာ။ She proudly displayed her prize.

Examples

1. [proud of] : We’re so proud of her for telling the truth.
2. [be proud to do something] : I’m proud to say we made the right decision.
3. [proud (that)] : We’re proud that they choose our hotel for their conferences.
4. [the proud owner of something] : The next day I became the proud owner of a full set of tools.
5. [make someone proud] : You’ve made your mother very proud.
6. The country has a proud record of sporting achievement.
7. A proud and independent nation of people
8. [be too proud to do something] : I was too proud to admit I didn’t understand.