[
  {
    "word": "self",
    "phonetic": "/s\u025blf/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/s\u025blf/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/self-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1157646",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "one's true self; one's better self; one's former self"
          },
          {
            "definition": "The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness (plural selves).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Self-interest or personal advantage.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Identity or personality.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "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).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": [
          "nonself"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To fertilise by the same individual; to self-fertilise or self-pollinate.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To fertilise by the same strain; to inbreed.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": [
          "outcross"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Having its own or a single nature or character throughout, as in colour, composition, etc., without addition or change; of the same kind; unmixed.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "a self bow: one made from a single piece of wood"
          },
          {
            "definition": "Same, identical.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Belonging to oneself; own.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "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).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": [
          "nonself"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "pronoun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Himself, herself, itself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "This argument was put forward by the defendant self."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Myself.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/self"
    ]
  }
]