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Commonself
The correct spelling is self.
How to pronounce self
/sɛlf/
nounIPA: /sɛlf/
Say it like: Sel-f
The correct spelling is self. One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. For example: "one's true self; one's better self; one's former self"
Usage Examples
“one's true self; one's better self; one's former self”
“a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood”
“This argument was put forward by the defendant self.”
Meanings
noun
- 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 his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
- 4.Self-interest or personal advantage.
- 5.Identity or personality.
verb
- 1.To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
- 2.To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.
adjective
- 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.
- 2.Same, identical.
- 3.Belonging to oneself; own.
- 4.Of or relating to 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).
pronoun
- 1.Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
- 2.Myself.
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