Self-made

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(of a person) Having achieved success by one's own efforts, with little to no support from family members and others..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of a person) Having achieved success by one's own efforts, with little to no support from family members and others.
2. (of a thing) Made by oneself instead of bought or taken over.

Example Sentences

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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