Pride and Prejudice

American  

noun

1. a novel (1813) by Jane Austen (written 1796–97).

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Pride and Prejudice Cultural  

1. (1813) A comic novel by Jane Austen about the life of an upper-middle-class family, the Bennets, in eighteenth-century England. A complex succession of events ends with the marriages of the two eldest Bennet daughters.

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Example Sentences

I watched episodes of the 1995 BBC series “Pride and Prejudice” with my mom and sister.

From The Wall Street Journal

There’s also the BBC adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, which I usually watch in the winter, when it starts to feel oppressive outside.

From Salon

With “Pride and Prejudice,” it’s more like, “What if we did this beat for beat?” and it’s just as phenomenal.

From Salon

Novelists Jennifer Egan, Adelle Waldman and Brandon Taylor then took the stage to collectively ponder Austen’s enduring legacy and duke it out over which of her novels — “Sense and Sensibility,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “Mansfield Park,” “Emma,” “Northanger Abbey” or “Persuasion” — should be everyone’s hands-down favorite.

From Los Angeles Times

Surprisingly, none of the three claimed Austen’s best-known novel, “Pride and Prejudice,” while dark horse candidate “Mansfield Park” — Austen’s far less sparkly, even somber third novel — appeared to win the day.

From Los Angeles Times