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Wording advise please?Do you agree "proud" and "pride" are pretty much the same meaning?Both mean pleased or pleasure, a state of mind. Except pride has more properties.I am proud of [ my achievement or a new BMW ]. (Adjective)I am prideful of  [ my achievement or a new BMW ]. (Adjective)I pride of [ my achievement or a new BMW ]. (Verb)I take pride of [ my achievement or a new BMW ]. (Noun)I looked at [ my achievement or a new BMW ] with pride. (Noun)ThanksJohn Aki

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John AkiDo you agree "proud" and "pride" are pretty much the same meaning? No, but they are related.

'proud' is the adjective. a proud man, a proud child.

'proud' also takes an of-phrase as a complement.

They are proud of their sons because all of them have done so well in school.

'pride' is the noun. It's the feeling you have when you have done well, when you have succeeded at something, or when you have accomplished something extraordinary. The typical combination of words is "take (great) pride in".

The city managed park system has a crew that takes great pride in their work.

'pride' can also be used as a verb, but the meaning changes a little. It's almost like 'congratulate'. Here the combination is reflexive:

I pride myself on ...; he prides himself on ...; she prides herself on ...; etc.

I pride myself on training to be highly skilled and competent at my job.

'prideful' is another related adjective, and it is more negative. It means something more like haughty or disdainful. It's having too much pride. It's bragging about your accomplishments. Companies that get too big and too prideful often come crashing down.

John Aki
I am proud of [ my achievement or a new BMW ]. (Adjective)
I am prideful of [ my achievement or a new BMW ]. (Adjective)
I pride of [ my achievement or a new BMW ]. (Verb)
I take pride of [ my achievement or a new BMW ]. (Noun)
I looked at [ my achievement or a new BMW ] with pride. (Noun)

With those notes in mind, here's how you might write those sentences.

I'm proud of my achievements.
I don't want to be too prideful of my accomplishments.
I pride myself on my achievements.
I take pride in my accomplishments.
I look back at my achievements with pride.

You can use 'achievements' or 'accomplishments' in any of these. Being proud of a new BMW doesn't work so well. It's not as if you made the BMW. But you could be proud of earning enough money to afford to buy a BMW.

CJ

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John AkiDo you agree "proud" and "pride" are pretty much the same meaning?

The others have answered well.

You made me look it up because I had always just sort of vaguely imagined that the two words were different forms of the same word without ever trying to find out how they were related. It turns out that "proud" is much older, having entered Old English from Old French all the way back to Latin. "Pride" developed from "proud" in Old English by alteration, making the two words related in something like the same way "fill" and "full" are.

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