Definitions for selves

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selves selves

Spelling: [selvz]

IPA: /sɛlvz/

Selves is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in selves (eelssv).

Definitions for selves

noun

1. plural of self.
2. a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individuality:
3. a person's nature, character, etc.:
4. personal interest.
5. Philosophy. the ego; that which knows, remembers, desires, suffers, etc., as contrasted with that known, remembered, etc. the uniting principle, as a soul, underlying all subjective experience.

pronoun

1. myself, himself, herself, etc.:

adjective

1. being the same throughout, as a color; uniform.
2. being of one piece with or the same material as the rest:
3. Immunology. the natural constituents of the body, which are normally not subject to attack by components of the immune system (contrasted with nonself).
4. Obsolete. same.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to self-pollinate.

Origin of selves

before 900; Middle English; Old English self, selfa; cognate with Dutch zelf, German selb-, Old Norse sjalfr, Gothic silba

Examples for selves

The newest issue of Elle Collections asks supermodels what advice they would give to their 17-year-old selves.

There was a lot I wanted to say to you—just quietly, in a corner by our two selves.

Some people can only learn from that sort of experience which comes home to their own dear selves.

While under the guise of “rocker” Chris Gaines, Brooks stubbornly refused to acknowledge any connection between his two selves.

The tender, painful, and sometimes very funny sex scenes give touching insight into the selves we seek to escape, but never can.

Would not that argue great lack of understanding in our two selves?

Letting people be their Facebook selves on a Web site makes some intuitive sense.

Of the future, of the actual present, save of their two selves, they scarcely spoke.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

We all have backstage selves and selves that we cultivate and present to the outside world.