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féin — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • own adj Belonging to a particular person; used to stress possession.
  • self noun A person's own individual character, personality, or identity.

Senses

féin is used for these senses in English:

  • own Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
  • self An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).

own — full definition

  1. adj Belonging to a particular person; used to stress possession.
  2. verb To have legal possession of something.
  3. verb To admit or accept that something is true, often about yourself.

self — full definition

  1. noun A person's own individual character, personality, or identity.
  2. pron Used informally in place of "myself," "himself," "herself," etc., especially in casual notes or business shorthand.

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