different between pride vs boast

English

Alternative forms

• pryde (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pride, from Old English pr?de, pr?te (“pride”) (compare Old Norse prýði (“bravery, pomp”)), derivative of Old English pr?d (“proud”). More at proud. The verb derives from the noun, at least since the 12th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?a?d/, [?p???a?d]
• Rhymes: -a?d
• Homophone: pried

Noun

pride (countable and uncountable, plural prides)

1. The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.
2. (often with of or in) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.

   He took pride in his work.

   He had pride of ownership in his department.

   • 1790-1793, William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven

     The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

3. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.
   • 1912, G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables

     Pride goeth before the fall.

4. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

     lofty trees yclad with summer's pride

   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     a bold peasantry, their country's pride

5. Show; ostentation; glory.
6. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
   • to be in the pride of one's life.
7. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
8. Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
9. (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.

   A pride of lions often consists of a dominant male, his harem and their offspring, but young adult males 'leave home' to roam about as bachelors pride until able to seize/establish a family pride of their own.

10. (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
11. Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pride.

Synonyms

• (a sense of one's own worth): dignity; See also Thesaurus:pride
• (proud or disdainful behavior): conceit, disdain; See also Thesaurus:arrogance
• (lust; sexual desire): See also Thesaurus:lust
• (lamprey species): prid, sandpiper

Derived terms

• gay pride
• point of pride
• pride comes before a fall
• prideful
• pride of place
• pride parade
• prider
• Pride

Related terms

• proud

See also

• clowder, company of small felines

Translations

Verb

pride (third-person singular simple present prides, present participle priding, simple past and past participle prided)

1. (reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
   • 1820, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

     Ichabod prided himself upon his dancing as much as upon his vocal powers. Not a limb, not a fibre about him was idle; and to have seen his loosely hung frame in full motion and clattering about the room you would have thought Saint Vitus himself, that blessed patron of the dance, was figuring before you in person.

Derived terms

• prided
• priding

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pride”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• pried, re-dip, redip, riped

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bo?st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Etymology 1

From Middle English bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”). Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost (“ostentation”) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), dialectal German baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”). Compare also dialectal Norwegian bausta, busta (“to rush onward, make a noise”).

Noun

boast (plural boasts)

1. A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
2. Something that one brags about.

3. (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Translations

Verb

boast (third-person singular simple present boasts, present participle boasting, simple past and past participle boasted)

1. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
   • 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist, 235c.

     On no account will he or any other kind be able to boast that he's escaped the pursuit of those who can follow so detailed and comprehensive a method of enquiry.

2. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
3. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
4. (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
5. (ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).

Synonyms

• brag

Derived terms

• boastful
• boastfully
• boastworthy
• outboast

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

boast (third-person singular simple present boasts, present participle boasting, simple past and past participle boasted)

1. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
2. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

References

• “boast”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• basto, boats, sabot