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# ego

«ego» in Mova's school dictionary: **the sense of who you are and how important you feel…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural egos)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your ego is the sense of who you are and how important you feel yourself to be. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ego/#m1)

2) Ego can mean too much pride in yourself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ego/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character's inner self, or pride, that can slip away or be hurt

### examples

- His ego was hurt when he lost the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ego/#x1)
- She has a big ego. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ego/#x2)
- He felt his ego slipping away from him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ego/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ego» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/ego/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.