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Definition: Proudly |
ProudlyAdverb1. In a proud manner; "he walked proudly into town". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "proudly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonym: ProudlySynonym: with pride (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Proudly |
| English words defined with "proudly": Bragly ♦ flash, flaunt ♦ glory ♦ Pridingly ♦ show off, Swaip, swank ♦ To perk it, Turbidly ♦ with pride. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "proudly": LABOR DAY ♦ Peacock ♦ Silken Thread ♦ Yarn. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "proudly": Bragly. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There's always a scar, which I guess, is meant to remind you that even for a little while, someone made your heart beat faster, and that's a scar you can live with, proudly. All the days of your life (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) | |
Lyrics | For the ring you wore proudly three months from now (Thank U In Advance; performing artist: Boyz II Men) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Proudly We Serve (1944) So Proudly We Hail! (1943) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A young fisherman proudly displays a fish almost as large as himself. Aboard the headboat YANKEE PATRIOT out of Gloucester. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Farmer Jeff England proudly displays his demonstration farm sign. Eng-Land Acres employs a variety of conservation practices and hosts educational tours for other farmers. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Leagnes still perches proudly. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Much of the talk is about the stock which is proudly shown at the fair, Albany, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. Old Glory floats proudly over the nation's oldest air base at Langley Field, Virginia. Among the Air Force groups stationed at this important point are bombardment squadrons equipped with mighty YB-17 b. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Garden State Art Center proudly presents Byelorussian Folk Festival, Saturday, June 12, 1976. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Empire State Building" by Greg Schmigel Commentary: "An empire of the state stands proudly over the NY skyline. See more of my works at www.27cm.com." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Friedrich Nietzsche | One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | The Governor smiled proudly. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And Granma looked straight ahead, proudly, for she was on show now. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always carried at our hearts. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | The men who mine coal and fire furnaces and balance ledgers and turn lathes and pick cotton and heal the sick and plant corn--all serve as proudly, and as profitably, for America as the statesmen who draft treaties and the legislators who enact laws. |
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| "Proudly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Proudly" is used about 654 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 654 | 10,005 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "proudly": proudly-maintained. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "proudly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me mendjemadhësi, me krenari. (various references) | |
Arabic | على نحو متكبر, على نحو متغطرس, بفخر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | славно, грандиозно (sublimely), гордо (flauntingly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 誇耀 (flaunt), 骄傲地, 傲然 (loftily, unyieldingly). (various references) | |
Czech | pyšnì. (various references) | |
French | orgueilleusement, fièrement. (various references) | |
German | stolz (boast, elation, fancy, glory, haughtily, haughtiness, haughty, impressive, loftily, lofty, majestic, pride, prideful, princely, proud, proudness), stolze (pridefully). (various references) | |
Greek | με καμάρι, υπερήφανα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | büszkén (loftily, pridefully). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dengan bangga. (various references) | |
Italian | altezzosamente (haughtily). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鼻高高 (triumphantly), 鼻高々 (triumphantly), 得得 (triumphantly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はなたかだか (triumphantly), とくとく (triumphantly). (various references) | |
Korean | 거만하게 (haughtily, insolently, superciliously). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oudlypray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vaidosamente (lordly, vainly), orgulhosamente (big, lordly), magnificamente (lordly, nobly), arrogantemente (lordly), altivamente (lordly). (various references) | |
Romanian | cu mândrie. (various references) | |
Russian | гордо. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ponosno. (various references) | |
Swedish | stolt (Brant, cavalier, proud). (various references) | |
Turkish | onurlu bir şekilde, mağrur bir tavırla, kıvançla, iftiharla, gururla, övünerek (big, boastingly, tall, vaingloriously, vauntingly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гордо, велично (greatly, kingly, nobly). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | uy nghi (august, grand, impressive, majestic, proud), tự đắc tự hào; hãnh diện lộng lẫy, kiêu ngạo (arrogant, assuming, assumptive, cavalier, conceited, proud-hearted, proud-spirited, pround-stomached), kiêu hãnh (proud, proud-hearted, proud-spirited, pround-stomached), kiêu căng (assuming, hand, haughty, high, high-minded, high-toned, pretentious, proud, proud-hearted, proud-spirited, pround-stomached), huy hoàng (lustrous, princely, proud, refulgent, royal, royally, saturnian), hùng vĩ (grandiose, imposing, mighty, sublime). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | audaciter, audacius, audacter, audacter, audaciter, audacter; audaciter, magnifice, superbe. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Nehemiah Chapter 9, Verse 16 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ipsi vero et patres nostri superbe egerunt et induraverunt cervices suas et non audierunt mandata tua |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders, |
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| Language | Nehemiah Chapter 9, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Apan sila ug ang among mga amahan nanagpagarbo, ug nanagpatikig sa ilang liog, ug wala mamati sa imong mga sugo, |
| Croatian | Ali se oni i oci naši uzjoguniše, vratove ukrutiše i zapovijedi tvojih nisu slušali. |
| Danish | Men vore Fædre blev overmodige og halsstarrige og hørte ikke på dine Bud; |
| Dutch | Maar zij en onze vaders hebben trotselijk gehandeld, en zij hebben hun nek verhard, en niet gehoord naar Uw geboden; |
| Finnish | Mutta he, meidän isämme, olivat ylimielisiä; he olivat niskureita eivätkä totelleet sinun käskyjäsi. |
| French | Mais nos pères se livrèrent à l`orgueil et raidirent leur cou. Ils n`écoutèrent point tes commandements, |
| German | Aber unsre Väter wurden stolz und halsstarrig, daß sie deinen Geboten nicht gehorchten, |
| Hungarian | Õk pedig, a mi atyáink, felfuvalkodának, és megkeményíték nyakukat és nem hallgaták parancsolataidat; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi leluhur kami angkuh dan tegar hati; perintah-perintah-Mu tak mereka taati. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi kelakuan mereka itu dan segala nenek moyang kamipun dengan congkak, ditegarkannya tengkuknya dan tiada mereka itu mendengar akan firman-Mu. |
| Italian | Ma essi, i nostri padri, si sono comportati con superbia, hanno indurito la loro cervice e non hanno obbedito ai tuoi comandi; |
| Maori | Otiia ka whakakake ratou ko o matou matua, ka whakapakeke i o ratou kaki, kihai hoki i rongo ki au whakahau, |
| Norwegian | Men de, våre fedre, var overmodige og hårdnakkede og hørte ikke på dine bud. |
| Portuguese | Eles, porém, os nossos pais, se houveram soberbamente e endureceram a cerviz, e não deram ouvidos aos teus mandamentos, |
| Rumanian | Dar pqrinyii nowtri s`au kngkmfat wi wi-au knyepenit grumazul. N`au urmat poruncile Tale, |
| Russian | оП ПОЙ Й ПФГЩ ОБЫЙ ХРТСНУФЧПЧБМЙ, Й ЫЕА УЧПА ДЕТЦБМЙ ХРТХЗП, Й ОЕ УМХЫБМЙ ЪБРПЧЕДЕК фЧПЙИ; |
| Spanish | Pero ellos y nuestros padres actuaron con soberbia; endurecieron su cerviz y no escucharon tus mandamientos. |
| Swedish | Men våra fäder, de voro övermodiga; de voro hårdnackade, så att de icke hörde på dina bud. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Proudly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Preuilly, Proulx, prudy, Routly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "proudly" (pronounced prou"dlē) |
| 4 | -ou" d l ē | loudly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, belatedly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, candidly, coldly, contentedly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, Diddley, kindly, doggedly, downwardly, evenhandedly, excitedly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, guardedly, haphazardly, hardly, heatedly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, madly, markedly, medley, mildly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, placidly, pointedly, profoundly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, Ridley, rigidly, roundly, rudely, ruggedly, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, solidly, soundly, splendidly, straightforwardly, stupidly, supposedly, thirdly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unfriendly, ungodly, unprecedentedly, upwardly, validly, vividly, weirdly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, widely, wildly, worldly, wretchedly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-l-o-p-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: dourly. | |
-2 letters: loury, proud, roupy, updry. | |
-3 letters: dopy, dorp, dory, dour, drop, duly, duro, lord, lory, loud, loup, lour, odyl, oldy, plod, ploy, poly, pour, prod, purl, ropy, roup, ruly, updo, your. | |
-4 letters: dol, dor, dry, duo, dup, lop, old, oud, our, ply, pod, pol, pro, pry, pud, pul, pur, rod, udo, upo, urd. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-l-o-p-r-u-y" | |
+3 letters: playground, profoundly. | |
+4 letters: playgrounds, polyandrous, ponderously, purportedly. | |
+5 letters: perfidiously, procedurally, prodigiously, productively, pronouncedly, reproducibly. | |
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