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We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
Annette Bening

Meaning of "selves" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELVES

selves  [sɛlvz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELVES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Selves is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SELVES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Self

The self is the subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. In phenomenology, it is conceived as what experiences, and there isn't any experiencing without an experiencer, the self. The self is therefore an "immediate given", an intrinsic dimension of the fact of experiencing phenomena. In some other trends of philosophy, the self is instead seen as requiring a reflexive perception of oneself, the individual person, meaning the self in such a view is an object of consciousness. The self has been studied extensively by philosophers and psychologists and is central to many world religions. With the recent rise in technology, the self has been discussed under various new emerging fields, such as Technoself Studies.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SELVES


elves
ɛlvz
ourselves
aʊəˈsɛlvz
shelves
ʃɛlvz
themselves
ðəmˈsɛlvz
wolves
wʊlvz
yourselves
ˈjɔːsɛlvz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELVES

sellers´ market
selling
selling plate
selling point
selling price
selling race
selling rate
selling-plater
Sellotape
sellout
selsyn
Seltzer
Seltzer water
seltzogene
selva
selvage
selvaged
selvagee
selvedge

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELVES

aardwolves
by halves
by yourselves
calves
go halves
halves
Ilves
mooncalves
pelves
strandwolves
throw to the wolves
werewolves

Synonyms and antonyms of selves in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SELVES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «selves» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of selves

Translation of «selves» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELVES

Find out the translation of selves to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of selves from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «selves» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自我
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mismos
570 millions of speakers

English

selves
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खुद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأنفس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

самости
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

eus
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাইরে selves
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mêmes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diri sendiri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

selbst
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自分たち
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자아
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Yakin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bản thân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பருவங்களுக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सेल्व्हस्
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

benlikleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stessi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

samych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

самості
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sinele
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ράφια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

själva
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selv
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of selves

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELVES»

The term «selves» is quite widely used and occupies the 23.979 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELVES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «selves» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «selves» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about selves

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10 QUOTES WITH «SELVES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word selves.
1
Riz Ahmed
I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.
2
Amos Bronson Alcott
Our ideals are our better selves.
3
A. R. Ammons
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
4
Paul Auster
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.
5
Justin Baldoni
I left acting for a couple of years to found my company, Wayfarer, and the first project I did was this documentary series I created called 'My Last Days' to remind us that our time is limited and to inspire us to do more and to be the best selves that we can be.
6
Rob Bell
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.
7
Hans Bender
The core of my personality consists of many selves.
8
Dirk Benedict
In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.
9
Annette Bening
We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
10
Elizabeth Berkley
My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELVES»

Discover the use of selves in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to selves and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Possible Selves: Theory, Research and Applications
The contributors to the book were chosen to represent a variety of perspectives, and to collectively illustrate some of the different ways that possible selves are being conceptualised, empirically examined and used in interventions.
Curtis Dunkel, Jennifer Kerpelman, 2006
2
Inventing Our Selves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood
Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty and choice that animate it.
Nikolas Rose, 1998
3
Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and ...
Explores the close relationship between inner psychology and bodily processes as represented in English Renaissance poetry.
Michael C. Schoenfeldt, 1999
4
Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves: A Gender Lens on ...
The authors of this volume explore the ways in which social psychology has simultaneously ignored and been deeply influenced by gender. They also consider the ways in which gender differences are not the same as sex differences.
Judith A. Howard, Jocelyn A. Hollander, 1997
5
Other Selves: Aristotle on Personal and Political Friendship
This book presents a thorough and systematic integration of Aristotle's analysis of friendship with the main lines of the rest of his work in Politics and Nicomachean Ethics.
Paul Schollmeier, 1994
6
Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, ...
"A gem to be consulted by all students of anthropology, history, ethnomusicology, and colonial studies.
Everett Taylor Atkins, 2010
7
The Constitution of Selves
Marya Schechtman takes issue with analytic philosophy's emphasis on the first sort of question to the exclusion of the second. The problem of personal identity, she suggests, is usually understood to be a question about historical life.
Marya Schechtman, 2007
8
Amnesiac Selves : Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British ...
With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory.
Nicholas Dames Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University, 2001
9
How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves
Informed by literary, scientific, and experiential concerns, Eakins enhances our knowledge of the complex forces that shape identity, and confronts the equally complex problems that arise when we write about who we think we are.
Paul John Eakin, 1999
10
Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination
The most recent installment of the Reappraisals series, which examines the range of meanings associated with animals in the Canadian literary imagination.
Janice Anne Fiamengo, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELVES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term selves is used in the context of the following news items.
1
13 Pieces Of Beauty Advice We'd Give Our Younger Selves
When we're young, we take for granted our glowing skin, silky hair and turbo-charged metabolism. So it's hard to reach, er, a certain age, only to find our skin ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
2
30 dead after 2 girls blow selves up near northeast Nigeria mosque
BAUCHI, Nigeria – Two girls blew themselves up on Monday near a crowded mosque in northeast Nigeria's biggest city, killing about 30 people, witnesses said. «Fox News, Jun 15»
3
Advisers should recharge selves, not phones, in summer
When financial adviser Gordon Bernhardt hiked back up from the bottom of the Grand Canyon five years ago, he knew he had one of the best experiences of his ... «Reuters, Jun 15»
4
3 SC justices won't inhibit selves from Junjun Binay's case
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and Associate Justices Antonio Carpio and Martin Villarama Jr. (from left) on Tuesday threw out Makati Mayor Junjun ... «Inquirer.net, Jun 15»
5
10 Gay Men in Their 30s Give Advice to Their 20-Something Selves
This is the first of a three-part series intended to address the topics of age, personal growth, and the awesomeness of wrinkles. «Advocate.com, Jun 15»
6
The Secret To Changing Our Selves
There are few problems as vexing to psychologists and their clients as that of relapse. Studies suggest that it is far easier for people to make changes in their ... «Forbes, May 15»
7
Death, Split Selves, and Demons: The Dopest Album on Your …
When I first played twenty one pilots' new album, Blurryface, I was not looking to be falcon-punched in the feels, nor stabbed in the precise sliver of brain that ... «Patheos, May 15»
8
Seeing our economic selves as others see us
So wrote Robert Burns in 1786, allowing for translation into English. Two years later the British established a penal colony in New South Wales and Australians ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
9
Our better selves are bold and inclusive
Our better selves are bold and inclusive. Armando Iannucci. It's tempting to be beguiled by the politics of apathy or of negativity and exclusion. Don't be. Vote for ... «The Guardian, May 15»
10
With Nepal overwhelmed by quake, villagers pull together and fend …
With Nepal overwhelmed by quake, villagers pull together and fend for selves. Published May 03, 2015. Associated Press. Facebook0 Twitter0 Email Print. «Fox News, May 15»

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