Pride vs. Bride — What's the Difference?

Pride is positive emotional response or attitude to something with an intimate connection to oneself, due to its perceived value. Oxford defines it amongst other things as "the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's own importance" This may be related to one's own abilities or achievements, positive characteristics of friends or family, or one's country.

A bride is a woman who is about to be married or who is newlywed. When marrying, the bride's future spouse, (if male) is usually referred to as the bridegroom or just groom.

A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.

A woman who is about to be married or has recently been married.

Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association

A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.

Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.

An object ardently loved.

A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class

An individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework

The most successful or thriving condition; prime

(obsolete) to make a bride of

An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.

A woman newly married, or about to be married.

Mettle or spirit in horses.

Fig.: An object ardently loved.

(Zoology) A group of lions, usually consisting of several related females and their offspring and a small number of unrelated adult males.

To make a bride of.

A flamboyant or impressive group

A woman who has recently been married

To indulge (oneself) in a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction

Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)

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.

A woman participant in her own marriage ceremony

A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; rejection of shame

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.

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.

Show; ostentation; glory.

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.

Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.

A company of lions or other large felines.

(zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.

(reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.

A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); - called also prid, and sandpiper.

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 in 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.

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.

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.

Show; ostentation; glory.

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.

To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; - used reflexively.

To be proud; to glory.

A feeling of self-respect and personal worth

Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements;

The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards

A group of lions

Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Be proud of;