pride

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pride/prʌɪd/

▶noun

• 1 a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from achievements, qualities, or possessions that do one credit.

  ■ something which causes this.

• 2 consciousness of one's own dignity.

  ■ the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself.

  ■ literary the prime of something.

• 3 a group of lions forming a social unit.

▶verb (pride oneself on/upon) be especially proud of (a quality or skill).

– phrases
one's pride and joy a person or thing of which one is very proud.
pride of place the most prominent or important position.

– derivatives
prideful adjective,
pridefully adverb.

– origin OE prȳde, var. of prȳtu, prȳte, from prūd (see proud).