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Narrator: Today's word is "Pride" — noun, pronounced /praɪd/, with the stress on "pride".
Narrator: Pride is a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction in your own or others' achievements.
Narrator: In plain English, pride is feeling good about what you've done.
Narrator: It comes from the Old English prȳde, from prūd, proud.
Narrator: A common collocation is "take pride in", which describes caring about doing something well.
Narrator: It differs from "arrogance", because pride can be healthy, while arrogance always looks down on others.
Narrator: In a second sense, a pride is a group of lions.
Narrator: Psychology, sport, literature and wildlife all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: pride is joy in achievement, but too much comes before a fall.
Speaker A: Why do people say pride comes before a fall?
Speaker B: Because overconfidence leads to mistakes! PRIDE comes from the Old English prūd, proud.
Speaker A: So is pride good or bad?
Speaker B: Both, depending on how much.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She takes pride in her work", care. "His pride stopped him apologising", stubbornness. "A pride of lions rested", animals.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Say take pride in, not take pride on, and proud is the adjective.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Self-respect is its healthy cousin, dignity is its twin, and vanity is the vain alternative, but pride keeps its lionhearted charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "pride" in AI prompts — useful for team recognition tools and wildlife apps.
Speaker A: How would recognition tools use it?
Speaker B: Celebrate staff.
Prompt: Write a short message expressing pride in the support team's record satisfaction score.
Speaker A: And wildlife apps?
Speaker B: Explain groups.
Prompt: Explain how a lion pride is organised, in five sentences for children.
Speaker A: Could it help coaching?
Speaker B: Yes, balance.
Prompt: Give three reflection questions to help someone tell healthy pride from arrogance.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Community sites.
Prompt: Draft a welcoming event page for our town's local pride festival.
Pride — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary