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

"There are so many nods to Pride and Prejudice - recognisable characters, iconic ballroom scenes, moments that make you think, 'I remember that'," said Jones.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

The Pride and Prejudice author died in the city in 1817, and was buried in the cathedral grounds.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024

Millions of viewers around the world swooned over Colin Firth as Mr Darcy, striding out of a lake wearing a wet shirt in the BBC's 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024

"In the sense of what Jane Austen wrote in Pride and Prejudice about the accomplished gentleman, he amounts to this standard."

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2023

I read Gray’s “Elegy” again, and when I finished that he asked me not to stop, so I read the beginning of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien