pride of place

noun phrase

: the highest or first position

Examples of pride of place in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The first room, undoubtedly installed by Renoir, gives pride of place to his painting, with dazzling snapshots of modern life, of the Paris of fashion and entertainment: its boulevards, dancers and spectators, as much motifs also observed and painted by Monet and Degas. Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 Coppola’s spectacular image-track is some of the best work of his career, giving fantasy pride of place in ordinary life and making the banal wondrous. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2024 In one photo, a bunch of teens crowd into the frame, in which somebody’s giant boom box takes pride of place. Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024 Most striking in the data is that China has lost pride of place as the biggest exporter to the United States. Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024 The Prancing Horse logo occupies pride of place on the temple, naturally. Conceived and developed on F1 tracks, the Scuderia Ferrari range is as sleek and sporty as the cars in its namesake racing division. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2024 The souvenirs continue to occupy pride of place in collections both private and public, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, which houses a box of them. Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024 Iran wants pride of place—politically, militarily, economically, and culturally—in the region and the world, and especially acknowledgment from a country that treated it as a puppet until 1979. Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024 Iranian cinema, particularly dissident cinema, has long had pride of place at the German festival. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1798, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of pride of place was in 1798

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“Pride of place.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pride%20of%20place. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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