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The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: self-abnegation, self-denial
Antonyms: none provided
The act of making the ultimate sacrifice of giving up one's life for a cause.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: selflessness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cooperation
Narrower terms: abnegation, self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbh-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- Proto-Indo-European *seh2k- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *sh2krós Proto-Italic *sakros Old Latin sacros Latin sacerder. Latin sacrum Proto-Indo-European *dheh1- Proto-Indo-European *dheh1k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dhh1kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin sacrificiumlbor. Old French sacrifisebor. Middle English sacrifice English sacrifice English self-sacrifice From self- + sacrifice.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Azerbaijani:
fədakarlıq
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Bulgarian:
саможертва
(samožertva)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Chinese Mandarin:
自我犧牲 /自我牺牲
(zìwǒxīshēng)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Czech:
sebeobětování
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Danish:
selvopofrelse
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Dutch:
zelfopoffering
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Esperanto:
memofero
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Estonian:
eneseohverdus
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Finnish:
uhrautuminen
— giving up of one's own benefit
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French:
auto-sacrifice
— giving up of one's own benefit
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French:
sacrifice de soi
— giving up of one's own benefit
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German:
Selbstaufopferung
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Greek:
αυτοθυσία
(aftothysía)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Gujarati:
આત્મસમર્પણ
(ātmasmarpaṇ)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Hindi:
आत्मत्याग
(ātmatyāg)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Hindi:
आत्मनिवेदन
(ātmanivedan)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Hindi:
आत्मबलिदान
(ātmablidān)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Hungarian:
önfeláldozás
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Irish:
féiníobairt
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Italian:
autosacrificio
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Italian:
abnegazione
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Japanese:
自己犠牲
(jikogisei)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Macedonian:
самопожртву́вање
(samopožrtvúvanje)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Macedonian:
самопре́гор
(samoprégor)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Norwegian Bokmål:
selvoppofrelse
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
sjølvoppofring
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Polish:
samopoświęcenie
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Portuguese:
autossacrifício
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Romanian:
sacrificiu de sine
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Russian:
самопоже́ртвование
(samopožértvovanije)
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Serbo-Croatian:
самоодрицање
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Serbo-Croatian:
саможр̀твова̄ње
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Serbo-Croatian:
самопрегор
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Serbo-Croatian:
samoodricanje
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Serbo-Croatian:
samožr̀tvovānje
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Serbo-Croatian:
samopregor
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Spanish:
autosacrificio
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Spanish:
abnegación
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Swedish:
självuppoffring
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Turkish:
fedakârlık
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Turkish:
özveri
— giving up of one's own benefit
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Ukrainian:
самопоже́ртва
(samopožértva)
— giving up of one's own benefit
