self
Forms
- Plural
- selves
- present (v1)
- self
- past (v2)
- selfed
- past participle (v3)
- selfed
- present participle
- selfing
- 3rd person singular
- selfs
Definitions
1.One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
2.The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
3.An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
4.Self-interest or personal advantage.
1.Myself, oneself.(humorous)
- I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.
1.To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.
2.To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
1.Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1944
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic *selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ- (“one's own”).
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