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Amour Propre

Definition: Amour Propre

Amour Propre

Noun

1. Feelings of excessive pride.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Amour Propre

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Literature

Amour propre One's self-love, vanity, or opinion of what is due to self. To make an appeal to one's amour propre , is to put a person on his metal. To wound one's armour propre , is to gall his good opinion of himself - to wound his vanity. (French.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Amour Propre

Synonyms: conceit (n), self-love (n), vanity (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Amour Propre

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Selfishness

Noun: selfishness; Adjective: self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest; egotism, egoism; amour propre; (vanity); nepotism.

Vanity

Noun: vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre; selfishness.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Amour Propre

Non-English Usage: "Amour Propre" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (self esteem).

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Modern Usage: Amour Propre

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Movie/TV Titles

L' Amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Amour Propre

Language Translations for "amour propre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

krenari (arrogance, loftiness, pride). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حب الذات (egoism, pride, self esteem). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

суета (bustling, vainglory, vanity), самолюбие. (various references)

   

Czech

  

sebeláska (self-love). (various references)

   

French

  

vanité. (various references)

   

German

  

eigenliebe (self love). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

כבו" עצמי (self esteem, self respect). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

önbecsülés (self esteem, self respect, self-esteem, self-regard, self-respect). (various references)

   

Italian

  

amore proprio. (various references)

   

Manx

  

leggad (beau, bequest, boy, boy sweetheart, endowment; sweetheart, legacy, partner, Valentine, Valentine sweetheart). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amouray oprepray

   

Portuguese

  

amor-próprio (self esteem, self respect, self-regard). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

самолюбие (amour-propre, pride). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

samopoštovanje (self esteem, self respect). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

amor propio (pride, self esteem, self respect). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

onur (face, honor, honour, pride, self esteem, self respect), izzetinefis (honor, honour, pride, self esteem, self respect), özsaygı (honor, honour, self esteem, self respect, self-regard). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Amour Propre

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-o-o-p-p-r-r-r-u"

-3 letters: armourer.

-4 letters: armorer, pampero.

-5 letters: armour, armure, mapper, marrer, mopper, pamper, parure, pauper, poorer, pourer, preamp, prearm, proper, pumper, rapper, remora, repour, repump, roamer, roarer, romper, roomer, uprear, uproar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Amour Propre


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6D 6F 75 72      50 72 6F 70 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101101 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01010000 01110010 01101111 01110000 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#109 &#111 &#117 &#114 &#32 &#80 &#114 &#111 &#112 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006D 006F 0075 0072      0050 0072 006F 0070 0072 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35798187842508481828471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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