What is another word for pride of place?

Pronunciation: [pɹˈa͡ɪd ɒv plˈe͡ɪs] (IPA)

Pride of place is a phrase commonly used to refer to something or someone that holds a position of great importance or respect. Some synonyms for this phrase include prime position, honored spot, top spot, foremost place, leading role, premier spot, and privileged position. These terms all convey a sense of status and significance, and can be used to describe anything from a treasured heirloom to a celebrated leader. Whether something holds pride of place due to its uniqueness, historical significance, or personal value, these synonyms provide a wide range of ways to express its importance.

Synonyms for Pride of place:

What are the hypernyms for Pride of place?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Pride of place?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for pride of place (as nouns)

What are the opposite words for pride of place?

Antonyms for the phrase "pride of place" may include words such as obscurity, insignificance, disregard, unimportance, or irrelevance. The expression "pride of place" typically connotes a position of high esteem or importance, often reserved for a person, object or idea that is considered to be of particular significance. Conversely, antonyms for this phrase denote a lower or lesser status, lacking in relevance or value. In everyday conversation, one might use antonyms of "pride of place" to express a lack of importance or to downplay the significance of a particular object or concept, contrasting it with other, more highly regarded items.

What are the antonyms for Pride of place?

Famous quotes with Pride of place

  • In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
    John Thorn
  • He was reminded of a Dutch book whose moral he often returned to: De Schoonheid van hoogspanningslijnen in het Hollandse landschap, written by a couple of academics in Rotterdam University, Anne Kieke Backer and Arij de Boode. The Beauty of Electricity Pylons in the Dutch Landscape was a defence of the contribution of transmission engineering to the visual appeal of Holland, referencing the often ignored grandeur of the towers on their march from power stations to cities. Its particular interest for Ian, however, lay in its thesis about the history of the Dutch relationship to windmills, for it emphasised that these early industrial objects had originally been felt to have all the pylons’ threateningly alien qualities, rather than the air of enchantment and playfulness now routinely associated with them. They had been denounced from pulpits and occasionally burnt to the ground by suspicious villagers. The re-evaluation of the windmills had in large part been the work of the great painters of the Dutch Golden Age, who, moved by their country’s dependence on the rotating utilitarian objects, gave them pride of place in their canvases, taking care to throw their finest aspect into relief, like their resilience during storms and the glint of their sails in the late afternoon sun. … It would perhaps be left to artists of our own day to teach us to discern the virtues of the furniture of contemporary technology.
    Alain de Botton
  • The more I thought it over, Kemp, the more I realised what a helpless absurdity an Invisible Man was—in a cold and dirty climate and a crowded civilised city. Before I made this mad experiment I had dreamt of a thousand advantages. That afternoon it seemed all disappointment. I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got. Ambition—what is the good of pride of place when you cannot appear there? What is the good of the love of woman when her name must needs be Delilah? I have no taste for politics, for the blackguardisms of fame, for philanthropy, for sport. What was I to do? And for this I had become a wrapped-up mystery, a swathed and bandaged caricature of a man!
    H. G. Wells

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