Meaning of self-made | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having achieved success by one's own efforts, with little to no support from family members and others.
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2. Made by oneself instead of bought or taken over.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“My father was the quintessential self-made man.”

“There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade—all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.”

““These were people who were self-made, and self-made people made up their own words,” Mr. Sokolowski added.”

“Near-synonyms: homemade, homebrew, homespun, handmade; see also Thesaurus:custom-made”

“Originally each school was bound only by self-made rules.”

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