Plume vs Pride - What's the difference?
plume | pride |
A feather of a bird, especially a large or showy one.
* Milton
The furry tail of certain dog breeds (e.g. Samoyed, Malteagle) that stands erect or curls over their backs.
A cluster of feathers worn as an ornament, especially on a helmet.
* Dryden
A token of honour or prowess; that on which one prides himself; a prize or reward.
* Milton
An upward spray of water or mist.
(geology) An upwelling of molten material from the Earth's mantle.
(astronomy) An arc of glowing material erupting from the surface of a star.
A large and flexible panicle of inflorescence resembling a feather, such as is seen in certain large ornamental grasses.
To preen and arrange the feathers of.
* Washington Irving
To congratulate (oneself) proudly.
To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel.
To adorn with feathers or plumes.
* Shakespeare
To form a plume.
To write; to pen.
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The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.
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.
* (rfdate) Macaulay
* (rfdate) (William Blake)
Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.
* (rfdate) G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables
That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children etc.
* (rfdate) Spenser
* (rfdate) Bible, Zech. ix. 6
* (rfdate) Goldsmith
(zoology) The small European lamprey species .
Show; ostentation; glory.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
* to be in the pride of one's life.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
(zoology) A company of lions.
(reflexive) To take or experience pride in something, be proud of it.
As verbs the difference between plume and pride
is that plume is while pride is (reflexive) to take or experience pride in something, be proud of it.As a noun pride is
the quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc, which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.plume
English
Noun
(en noun)- wings of many a coloured plume
- his high plume , that nodded o'er his head
- ambitious to win from me some plume
Derived terms
* plume grass * plume moth * plume nutmegVerb
(plum)- pluming her wings among the breezy bowers
- He plumes himself on his skill.
- (South)
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Dryden)
- Farewell the plumed troop.
- Smoke plumed from his pipe then slowly settled towards the floor.
- We mention this observation, not with any view of pretending to account for so odd a behaviour, but lest some critic should hereafter plume himself on discovering it.
pride
English
(wikipedia pride)Noun
- He took pride in his work.
- He had pride of ownership in his department.
- A people which takes no pride' in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with ' pride by remote descendants.
- The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
- Pride goeth before the fall.
- lofty trees yclad with summer's pride
- I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
- a bold peasantry, their country's pride
- Pride , pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
- a falcon, towering in her pride of place
Synonyms
* (lamprey species) prid, sandpiper * See alsoDerived terms
* point of pride * pride comes before a fall * pridefulVerb
- I pride myself on being a good judge of character, but pride goes before the fall and I'm not a good judge of my own character so I'm often wrong without knowing it.