selfie
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From self + -ie. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.

Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛlfi/
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Audio (UK) (file)
Noun[edit]
selfie (plural selfies)
- (informal, mobile telephony) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
- 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" [1], ABC Online Forum selfie photo:
- 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." [2], Flickr:
- Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.
- 2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books (2005), →ISBN, page 148:
- That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie.
- 2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie” [3], the picture show, National Public Radio
- 2013 December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media, National Public Radio:
- Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.
- 2017 Lord Stag, "Say Cheese", Lily's Driftwood Bay
- I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie.
Usage notes[edit]
Usage is very varied, including photos of oneself that are not taken by oneself (not self-portraits), as in “Could you take a selfie of me?” (compare autobiography, which may be written by a ghostwriter), or not only of oneself, as in “This is a selfie of me and my sister.” Many terms for recently popular photo genres have been coined by analogy by suffixing -ie, as in shelfie, or by blending, as in nelfie.[1] A self-portrait of multiple people is sometimes called an ussie, groupie, or selvesie.
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Verb[edit]
selfie (third-person singular simple present selfies, present participle selfying, simple past and past participle selfied)
- (intransitive, informal, mobile telephony) to take a selfie
Translations[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^ What Makes a Selfie a Selfie?, Gretchen McCulloch, Slate, April 1 2014
Further reading[edit]
Selfie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Selfies on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
selfie
Declension[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
selfie m (plural selfies, diminutive selfietje n)
Derived terms[edit]
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
from English
Noun[edit]
selfie
Declension[edit]
Inflection of selfie (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | selfie | selfiet | |
genitive | selfien | selfieiden selfieitten |
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partitive | selfietä | selfieitä | |
illative | selfieen | selfieihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | selfie | selfiet | |
accusative | nom. | selfie | selfiet |
gen. | selfien | ||
genitive | selfien | selfieiden selfieitten |
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partitive | selfietä | selfieitä | |
inessive | selfiessä | selfieissä | |
elative | selfiestä | selfieistä | |
illative | selfieen | selfieihin | |
adessive | selfiellä | selfieillä | |
ablative | selfieltä | selfieiltä | |
allative | selfielle | selfieille | |
essive | selfienä | selfieinä | |
translative | selfieksi | selfieiksi | |
instructive | — | selfiein | |
abessive | selfiettä | selfieittä | |
comitative | — | selfieineen |
See also[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
selfie m, f (plural selfies)
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
selfie f or m (less common) (plural selfies)
- selfie (photographic self-portrait)
Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
selfie m (plural selfies)
Synonyms[edit]
- English words suffixed with -ie
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- fi:Photography
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- es:Photography