How to spell proud

hear itproud/praʊd/adjectiveSounds

What it means: Feeling satisfaction or pleasure about something.

In a sentence: I felt proud when I helped my friend.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as proude or proude.

Same family: pride, proudly, proudest, prouder, self-respect. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Proud” comes from Old French “prud,” meaning brave or valiant, which in turn comes from a Latin word related to “profit” and “advantage.” Over time, the meaning shifted from brave and noble to our modern sense of feeling pleased and dignified about someone or something.

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