Usually means: Essence of individual identity, consciousness.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. self, self-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. self, self, self-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self, self-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self, self-, the self: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self, self: Wordnik
  7. self, self-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Self, -self, self, self-: Wiktionary
  9. self, self-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. self, self-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. self: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. self, self-: Dictionary.com
  13. self: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. self: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Self (Jung), Self (album), Self (band), Self (car), Self (company), Self (disambiguation), Self (magazine), Self (philosophy), Self (programming language), Self (psychology), Self (sociology), Self (spirituality), Self (surname), Self, The self: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Self: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. self: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. self: Rhymezone
  19. self: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. self: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. self, self-: MyWord.info
  22. S.E.L.F: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. self: Free Dictionary
  24. self: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Self, self: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. self, self-: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Self: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Self: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  3. self: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Self: Natural Health glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. SELF: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  5. self: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. SELF: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. self: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. self: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See selfing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Self)

noun:  One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
noun:  The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
noun:  An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
noun:  Self-interest or personal advantage.
noun:  Identity or personality.
noun:  (botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
noun:  (botany) A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
noun:  (molecular biology, 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:  (botany) To fertilize by the same individual; to self-fertilize or self-pollinate.
verb:  (botany) To fertilize by the same strain; to inbreed.
adjective:  Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.
adjective:  (obsolete) Same, identical.
adjective:  (obsolete) Belonging to oneself; own.
adjective:  (molecular biology, 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).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Boone County, Arkansas, United States

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