find oneself

1. 1.

   accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

   “My son went to Berkeley to find himself”

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Questions about find oneself

What does find oneself mean?

find oneself means "accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation".

What is another word for find oneself?

Close synonyms include find. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is find oneself a common word?

find oneself is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.