different between pride vs pod

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

Etymology

From Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), possibly from Old English p?d (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paid? (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh?- (“woolen clothes”). Cognate with Old Saxon p?da (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic ???????????????????? (paida, “mantle, skirt”), Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”), Ancient Greek ????? (baít?, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Homophone: pawed (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

pod (plural pods)

1. (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.

   Synonyms: capsule, case, container, hull, husk, shell, seedpod, vessel

2. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
3. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
4. (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.

   Synonym: gam

5. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
6. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
7. A nicotine cartridge.
8. A lie-flat business or first class seat.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• like two peas in a pod

Translations

Verb

pod (third-person singular simple present pods, present participle podding, simple past and past participle podded)

1. (intransitive) To bear or produce pods
2. (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
4. (intransitive) To swell or fill.

Translations

Anagrams

• DOP, DPO, ODP, PDO, dop

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pod

Adverb

pod

1. (focus) also; too
2. (after a negative) either

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pot/

Preposition

pod + instrumental

1. below

   Synonym: pode

   Antonym: nad

Further reading

• pod in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• pod in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Lower Sorbian

Preposition

pod

1. Superseded spelling of pód.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pod?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?pó + *d?h?-o-

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (isolated) /p?t/
• Homophone: pot

Preposition

pod

1. (+ instrumental) below, beneath, under, underneath (denotes location)

2. (+ accusative) below, beneath, under, underneath (denotes movement)
3. (+ accusative) against

4. (+ instrumental) near

Related terms

• pode

Further reading

• pod in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pod in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Noun

pod n (plural poduri)

1. bridge
2. attic

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• mansard?
• punte

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôd/

Noun

p?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. floor

2. ground

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *pod?.

Alternative forms

• poda (enclitic pronominal form)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pôd/

Preposition

p?d (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (+ accusative case) under, beneath (with change of position, answering the question kùda)

   Antonyms: ?znad, n?d

2. (+ instrumental case) under, beneath (stationary, answering the question gdj?/gd?)

   Antonyms: ?znad, n?d

3. (+ instrumental case) under, beneath (being in a particular condition)

4. (+ accusative case) near, toward, in (temporal, with nouns denoting a final temporal segment)

5. (+ instrumental case) during (temporal)

6. (+ accusative case) as, instead of, in lieu of

7. miscellaneous idiomatic meanings

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?t/

Preposition

pod + instrumental

1. below

   Synonym: podo

   Antonym: nad

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??t/

Noun

p?d m inan

1. floor (lower part of a room)

   Synonym: tla

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• spodaj

Volapük

Noun

pod (nominative plural pods)

1. apple

Declension