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self-made
[ self-meyd ]
adjective
- having succeeded in life unaided:
He is a self-made man.
- made by oneself.
self-made
adjective
- having achieved wealth, status, etc, by one's own efforts
- made by oneself
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-made1
Example Sentences
In the early years, the big powers were often rough, self-made men such as Jack Warner or Louis B. Mayer.
He was a self-made man, and a self-destroyed man—so he wrote his own punch line.
We needed him to be wary, absorbed, and a little bit gruff, and he gamely complied, thereby furthering his own self-made legend.
My father was a self-made man as we use the term, but he was more than that – much more.
But Bennett, a religious IDF commander and self-made multimillionaire, failed us miserably on two leadership issues.
She wondered if he would take his youth in his bald-headed season, like the self-made American millionaire.
He was a notable as well as what is called “a self-made” man, a fact of which he never boasted but I think was a little proud.
Dr. Bias deserves the more credit for his progress in life, as he is entirely self-made.
I'd like to think it wasn't, I'd like to believe that democracy always will be as it always has been—a self-made failure.
A self-made man, he had been obliged to postpone marriage and family life to a comparatively advanced age.
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