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.