Meaning of self in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.

  Example: one's true self; one's better self; one's former self

• The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.

• An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).

• Self-interest or personal advantage.

• Identity or personality.

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

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

• 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).

verb

• To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.

• To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.

adjective

• Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.

  Example: a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood

• Same, identical.

• Belonging to oneself; own.

• 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

• Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).

  Example: This argument was put forward by the defendant self.

• Myself.

  Example: I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.