单词 | self-identified |
释义 | self-identifiedadj. 1. Identified by a person himself or herself; established as something by oneself.In quot. 1840: identified by oneself as associated with another. ΚΠ 1840 Standard 5 Oct. The identity of Mr. Alderman Harmer with the Dispatch is..well known... Is this journal self-identified with the candidate Lord Mayor? 1869 G. W. Thompson Deus-Semper 102 He clearly and analytically catches this Power in the designate limitations in his own self-identified self-consciousness. 1942 Elem. Eng. Rev. 19 193/2 The teacher who directs pupils in their adaptation of reading according to self-identified purposes should go far toward developing the ability..to read. 1999 J. S. Bohan & G. M. Russell Conversat. Psychol. & Sexual Orientation ii. 50 Clients often came into therapy with the self-identified problem of codependency. 2007 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 13 Oct. e8 A world where every individual and community has adequate access to the resources, knowledge and technology necessary to meet their self-identified needs. 2. Chiefly U.S. That has identified or described oneself as something, esp. a particular category or group of people; that has assigned oneself a particular characteristic or categorization. ΚΠ 1922 N.Y. Tribune 27 May 1/1 Walter S. Ward, self-identified killer of Clarence Peters, last night slept behind the buttressed walls of the old Westchester County Jail. 1936 Christian Sci. Monitor 8 Jan. 4/7 Leaders of Seattle's short-lived ‘Communist college’, raided last night by a band of self-identified war veterans, were under arrest today. 1975 E. C. Ladd Transformations Amer. Party Syst. 15 Independents are the largest ‘party’, their numbers exceeding those of self-identified Democrats and Republicans. 2013 Church Times 26 Apr. 16/1 [The survey] was completed by 1261 self-identified Anglicans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1840 |
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