self-made
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- adjective
- /ˈsɛlfˌmeɪd/
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- He's the epitome of a young self-made success story.
- a self-made man
- self-made success
He's the epitome of a young self-made success story.
- He's the epitome of a young self-made success story.
- Hagel is the kind of person who thinks there's no such thing as a self-made man or woman, right?
- Next up we have Sean Quinn, the epitome of the self-made businessman.
- The image belief, maybe myth of the self-made man.
- And my my goal was to be the first social media billionaire, the first self-made social media billionaire.
- You see, these are the types of outside the box ideas that turned her into a self-made billionaire.
- These kids that are born billionaires, you're, you're, you're never going to be a self-made person.
- I know some billionaires and Andres Paniotti well, and virtually every successful entrepreneur I've met, they're self-made, IE they started from nothing.
- It's a large number of really self-made innovators.
- And what does that term self-made make you think in your head?
- I mean, that's the the peril of every, you know, self-made man success story, right?
- The people are saying she's self-made and respecting.
- And so, but dad was a self-made fellow.
Examples
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She is a self-made entrepreneur who built her company from the ground up.
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My father was a self-made millionaire, and he never let you forget it.
Fiction book (1990) -
And so I spent eight years in that world and I, I had, I had been a self-made young woman.
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Of course he was a self-made man.
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Bill's father was completely self-made.
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The American myth of the self-made man or woman is just that: a myth.
Blog text (6) -
The majority of lawyers were self-made men who came from comparatively humble backgrounds.
Academic text (2010) -
Aside from the initial American capital, he's a self-made man, also intelligent and charming.
Fiction book (1992) -
He was, at least at the time, the youngest self-made billionaire in history of the planet, as far as I know.
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I'm a self-made man.
Synonyms
A person who has lasting success or security
Antonyms
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Self-made comes from the two plain words self ('oneself') and made ('built' or 'created'). It describes someone who has 'built' their success by their own work, not by family money or outside help.