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What does self mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word self? Here's what it means.

Pronoun
  1. (obsolete) Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
  2. (humorous) Myself.
Noun
  1. The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
  2. An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
  3. (botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
  4. (immunology) 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
  1. (botany) To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.
  2. (botany) To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.
Adjective
  1. Having its own or a single nature or character, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed.
  2. (immunology) 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).
  3. (obsolete) Same.
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