Meaning

7 senses
  1. One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.

    She remained her usual cheerful self despite recent setbacks

  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).

    Selbst

    самsam, себя́sebjá, собо́йsobój

    самsam

    your consciousness of your own identity

  4. Self-interest or personal advantage.

  5. A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).

  6. A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.

  7. Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).

Examples

1215 sentences
  1. Tom claims he shot Mary in self-defense.

    Том стверджує, що стріляв у Мері в якості самооборони.

    ruТом утверждает, что стрелял в Мэри в целях самозащиты.

    deTom behauptet, er habe Maria aus Notwehr erschossen.

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  2. You should learn self-defense.

    Тобі слід навчитися самозахисту.

    ruТебе нужно научиться самозащите.

    deDu solltest Selbstverteidigung lernen.

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  3. The lower your self-esteem, the more you tend to focus on negative things.

    Чим нижча твоя самооцінка, тим більше ти схильний концентруватися на негативі.

    ruЧем ниже ваша самооценка, тем больше вы склонны концентрироваться на негативных вещах.

    deJe niedriger das Selbstwertgefühl, desto mehr gibt man sich mit negativen Sachen ab.

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  4. I'm very self-conscious.

    Я дуже сором'язливий.

    ruЯ очень стеснительный.

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  5. The cafeteria was self-service.

    У кафетерії було самообслуговування.

    ruВ кафетерии было самообслуживание.

    deIn der Cafeteria war Selbstbedienung.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness:
Русский
By meaning 1
individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
individual person as the object of own reflective consciousness:

Origin

From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germ

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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Forms

plural: selves / selfs
Singularself
Pluralselves / selfs

regular

Synonyms

15 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • your consciousness of your own identity:ego

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

45 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • in self defense
  • self conscious
  • self defense
  • is self conscious
  • self inflicted
  • acted in self
  • his usual self
  • self centered
  • self esteem
  • self made man
  • self confidence
  • has no self

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
self — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto