Definition of Pride of place

1. Noun. The first or highest or most important or most ostentatious place.

Generic synonyms: Place, Position

Definition of Pride of place

1. Noun. The highest-ranking or first position; position of honor. ¹

2. Noun. Honor; esteem. ¹

3. Noun. Pride concerning a place, as one's home town or residence. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pride Of Place

prickteaser
prickteasers
prickwood
prickwoods
pricky
pricy
pride-of-India
pride comes before a fall
pride cometh before a fall
pride goes before a fall
pride goeth before a fall
pride of Bolivia
pride of California
pride of barbados
pride of place (current term)
pride oneself
pride wenteth before a fall
prided
prideful
pridefully
pridefulness
pridefulnesses
prideless
priderite
prides
pridian
priding
pridingly
pridinol

Literary usage of Pride of place

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"That such homely squabbles took place in the inferior convents, and that there might be much pride of place among the higher, we can readily allow ..."

2. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to by Norman Angell (1910)
"... WAR "You cannot leave human nature out of the account": vanity, pride of place, pugnacity, the inherent hostility of nations —Nations too good to fight; ..."

3. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... high in pride of place? As sheaf from field, and left no trace. They from this earth have slipped away They are as though they never were, ..."

4. Self-formation; Or, The History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a Guide by Capel Lofft (1846)
"... and reads some portions of the Gospel, and afterwards exalts himself into the pulpit, that he may preach his own doctrine from his own pride of place, ..."

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