Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-made \Self"-made`\, a. Made by one's self.
Self-made man, a man who has risen from poverty or obscurity by means of his own talents or energies.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a person, having achieved success by one's own efforts. 2 Of a thing, made by oneself instead of bought or taken over.
WordNet
adj. having achieved success or recognition by your own efforts; "a self-made millionaire"
Wikipedia
Self-made or Self Made or Selfmade may refer to:
- Self-made man
- Selfmade Records, a German hip hop label
- Self Made (album), an album by Rocko
- "Self-Made" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Self Made Vol. 1, a collaboration studio album from Maybach Music Group
- Self Made (film), a 2014 film
Usage examples of "self-made".
The most important of the mycelia is Nirvana, the self-made home base of the Friends of Tod.
French-Oriental reception-room of his luxurious villa, that he was a self-made man who had led his caravans from Siwa to Timbuctu, from Wadai to Algiers, and had fought in a hundred fights for his property and life against the Tebu, Zouaia, Chambaa, Bedouin, and Touareg robbers of the desert.
Ryan guessed, from some hoarded M-16 carbines and a variety of self-mades and patch-ups, which was the usual kind of weaponry that was found in the frontier wilderness of Deathlands.
A self-made multibillionaire in the gray world of international technology resale, Farmer had legions of people sweating with eagerness to take care of his business for him.
The professional politicians corning to the fore in the twenties and thirties, though sometimes self-made, were seldom ordinary.
May 10, 1992 The Lipton tennis boondoggle is in deep trouble, all of it self-made.
The story is indeed much like Warhol's: Martin, too, is a self-made man, born of immigrant parents, who anglicizes his name, and who achieves fame and fortune through an art that embraces and celebrates American culture at its most commercial and derivative.
McQueen, sitting in his dingy Bangor oce running a hoe-and-comer business as a demoition contractor with assets consisting of a battered truck and a ton of second-hand sedgehammers, considered himself a self-made man and heartily ap proved of the Ulster Protestant work ethic.
Although he was, in fact, a wealthy man who lived in a magnificent mansion, the Hermitage, outside of Nashville, Tennessee, Jackson was also a self-made son of the Carolina back country.
The Fifties are the fulfillment of the American prophecy: the age, not of Aquarius, but of the Emersonian self-made man, and of Zarathustra's Eternal Return.
Major General Frederick Funston was a self-made soldier in an American military where you were usually doomed if you were not a West Pointer.
I thought about killing Keesh, but I'd heard far too many stories about what happened to self-made widows.
Everyone else in the room was in the casual garb of rich people on holiday-a range that ran from the garish display of the self-made to the tastefully drab leisurewear affected by Old Money.
Brocky came from a home dominated by a father who was a self-made man, and unlike some in that category he had made rather a good job of himself, and had given his son the outlook on life of one who has seen the world as it appears to somebody who is getting, and keeping, his head above the waves.
The disposal, neat and clean and impossible to trace: but then, Megan Whitlock had been nothing but the child of weavers, self-made, her parents dead and no kin but a few dockside riffraff.