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selfie
Also: selfy (rare), selfies
A photograph a person takes of themselves, usually with a phone or digital camera.
In a sentence
We took a selfie beside the trail marker before the rain arrived.
Where it came from
The earliest widely accepted evidence is a 2002 post on an Australian online forum, where a writer labelled a self-taken photo a selfie. The word later became global and Oxford Dictionaries’ 2013 Word of the Year.
- First recorded
- 2002
- Initial era
- 2000–today
- Where used
- Coined or first documented in Australia; now global