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Definition of Self-made
1. Adjective. Having achieved success or recognition by your own efforts. "A self-made millionaire"
Definition of Self-made
1. Adjective. Of a person, having achieved success by one's own efforts. ¹
2. Adjective. Of a thing, made by oneself instead of bought or taken over. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-made
Literary usage of Self-made
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1847)
"self-made MEN : HON. ZADOCK PRATT. ... acquires for himself that property of
soul, which has always upheld, and always will uphold, the self-made man. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1847)
"self-made MEN : HON. ZADOCK PRATT. — The reader's attention and ... which has
always uphold, and always will uphold, the self-made man. ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"... prisoner to the grave; From whence there's no reprieve. Death keep him close;
We have too many Devils still go loose. THE self-made GENERAL INGRAM. ..."
4. An Introduction to Social Ethics: The Social Conscience in a Democracy by John Moffatt Mecklin (1920)
"THE self-made MAN There is deeply implanted in American life an antagonism to
the institution. Since this antagonism is intimately connected with the lack ..."
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