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

Batey’s gorgeously illustrated book saves us from seeing a flower garden as mere background detail or finding wholly comic Elizabeth Bennet’s claim in “Pride and Prejudice” that she dates her love of Mr. Darcy from “first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Guiteau is definitely no Darcy from “Pride and Prejudice,” or Tom Wambsgans from “Succession,” for that matter.

From Los Angeles Times

There was an early television appearance in 1952, as Lydia Bennet in a BBC production of Pride and Prejudice, which featured Peter Cushing - better known for his roles in horror movies - as Mr Darcy.

From BBC

It opens with a satirical nod to Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”: “It is a truth generally acknowledged by the citizens of Maycomb, Ala., that a single woman in possession of little else but a good knowledge of English social history must be in want of someone to talk to.”

From Los Angeles Times

The writer of the BBC's Pride and Prejudice adaptation starring Colin Firth says the idea came from a former student who suggested he make it "really sexy".

From BBC