pride of place
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6.8
- idiom
:
lugar de honor
- For obvious reasons, the museum has always given pride of place to its unique collection of Irish antiquities.
- gives pride of place
- takes pride of place
- occupies pride of place
Examples
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The Bush administration has given trade agreements pride of place in its overall Latin America and Caribbean policy.
Academic text (2006) -
And of course Mr. Greene, your works hold pride of place in my library.
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Paul VI presented Mary as both mother and sister, but giving pride of place to mother.
Academic text (2005) -
And here in a full page picture in pride of place is a young Viking.
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Surely that aim deserves pride of place on our educational agenda for all our children.
Academic text (2001) -
Soccer has pride of place in Argentine sports history.
Academic text (1994) -
Both have been thoroughly excavated, and their artifacts take pride of place in the national museum.
Academic text (2009) -
Among the nineteenth century's major works of science, The Origin of Species must take pride of place.
Academic text (1998) -
A blue and white china tureen held pride of place on the sideboard, but the ladle was chipped.
Fiction book (1992) -
The museum has given pride of place to its latest exhibition on ancient civilizations.
Synonyms
1
4.1
A place people prefer for a certain activity
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'pride' (something that causes pride) and 'place' (position or location) together plausibly yield the idea of a position that provokes pride, so a learner who knows both words could infer a general meaning of an honored or prominent position. However, 'pride of place' is a conventional collocation whose exact nuance (the foremost or most conspicuous spot) is somewhat idiomatic and not fully predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Pride of place may come from the simple image of putting something you are proud of in the best spot in the room: the object's pride gets the most visible place on a shelf or mantel. That's why the phrase now means 'the most important or special position'.