Word Meanings - TOP-PROUD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Proud to the highest degree. "This top-proud fellow." Shak.
Related words: (words related to TOP-PROUD)
- PROUDLING
A proud or haughty person. Sylvester. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - PROUD
prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; - FELLOWSHIP
1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. - FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak. - PROUDISH
Somewhat proud. Ash. - FELLOW-FEELING
1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot. - FELLOWLIKE
Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall. - FELLOWLY
Fellowlike. Shak. - DEGREE
A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third - FELLOW
companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows - PROUDLY
In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully. Proudly he marches on, and void of fear. Addison. - FELLOW-CREATURE
One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts. - FELLOWFEEL
To share through sympathy; to participate in. D. Rodgers. - FELLOWLESS
Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman. - PROUDNESS
The quality of being proud; pride. Set aside all arrogancy and proudness. Latimer. - OVERPROUD
Exceedingly or unduly proud. "Overproud of his victory." Milton. - BEDFELLOW
One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch. - UNFELLOWED
Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak. - DISFELLOWSHIP
To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart. - TOP-PROUD
Proud to the highest degree. "This top-proud fellow." Shak. - ODD FELLOW
A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment. - PEWFELLOW
1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak. - GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
Agreeable companionship; companionableness. - PLAYFELLOW
A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak. - COACHFELLOW
One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak. - WORKFELLOW
One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.