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. — deniko

    ruТом утверждает, что стрелял в Мэри в целях самозащиты. — marafon

    deTom behauptet, er habe Maria aus Notwehr erschossen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. You should learn self-defense.

    Тобі слід навчитися самозахисту. — deniko

    ruТебе нужно научиться самозащите. — Wezel

    deDu solltest Selbstverteidigung lernen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  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. — deniko

    ruЧем ниже ваша самооценка, тем больше вы склонны концентрироваться на негативных вещах. — villard85

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

  4. I'm very self-conscious.

    Я дуже сором'язливий. — deniko

    ruЯ очень стеснительный. — Olya

  5. The cafeteria was self-service.

    У кафетерії було самообслуговування. — Walentinio

    ruВ кафетерии было самообслуживание. — Walentinio

    deIn der Cafeteria war Selbstbedienung. — ayu

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