Usually means: Achieved success through personal effort.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word self-made:

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  1. self-made: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-made: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-made: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-made, self-made: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-made: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-Made, Self-made, self-made: Wordnik
  7. self-made: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. self-made: Wiktionary
  9. self-made: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. self-made: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. self-made: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. self-made: Dictionary.com
  13. self-made: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Self-made: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Self-made: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. self-made: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. self-made: Rhymezone
  18. Self-made: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. self-made: FreeDictionary.org
  20. self-made: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. self-made: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Similar:
successful, self-sufficient, single-handed, self-educated, independently wealthy, self-proclaimed, single handed, home free, unaided, singlehanded, more...

Opposite:
inherited, bequeathed, handed-down

Phrases:
Self-made man, more...

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Similar:
successful, self-sufficient, single-handed, self-educated, independently wealthy, self-proclaimed, single handed, home free, unaided, singlehanded, more...

Opposite:
inherited, bequeathed, handed-down

Phrases:
Self-made man, more...



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