Self-made-man: nm (English word “man who made himself”).
A self-made man is a man who owes his material and social success to himself.
Self-made-men or self-made-men (English plural).
For a woman, we also say (but more rarely), a self-made woman.
– Quote from the French poet and novelist Louis Aragon (1897-1882): “Mr. Brunel was a self-made man, he did business, he had very difficult beginnings”....
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