selfie

[ sel-fee ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a photograph taken with a smartphone or other digital camera by a person who is also in the photograph, especially for posting on a social media website:

   celebrities sharing selfies on Twitter.

Word History and Origins

Origin of selfie¹

First recorded in 2000–05; self none + -ie none

Example Sentences

The rioters who posed for selfies on the Senate floor in the afternoon and the representatives who stood on the House floor hours later differed only in their motivation.

From Washington Post

Hostetter and Taylor posed for a selfie on the Capitol steps.

From Washington Post

Watching hundreds of Parler videos shows that the disturbing ones that first surfaced publicly, of officers taking selfies with protesters and otherwise laying down for the attackers, offered a picture that was far from complete.

From ProPublica

He had apparently gone to the Capitol and taken a selfie there.

From Vox

The selfie camera uses the image signal processor auto-retouching whenever you take a photo of yourself.

From Popular-Science

The third continued in kind with “selfie,” “swagger,” and “twerk.”

From The Daily Beast

He spotted a few visitors with selfie sticks, and wondered if any were sold nearby.

From The Daily Beast

She had sent her mother back in Colorado a last message that included a selfie.

From The Daily Beast

So, yes, in other words, Selfie is both brilliant and terrible.

From The Daily Beast

And that even skips right over the biggest, biggest issue with Selfie, which is its aforementioned abominable title.

From The Daily Beast