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what someone is made of

what someone is made of noun: one's personal qualities that project strength, power, courage, or stamina.

Noun

what someone is made of (uncountable)

  1. One's personal qualities that project strength, power, courage, or stamina.
    • You don't have to take it lying down. Show him what you are made of!

Questions about what someone is made of

What does what someone is made of mean?
What someone is made of means one's personal qualities that project strength, power, courage, or stamina.
What part of speech is what someone is made of?
What someone is made of is a noun.

Words near what someone is made of in the dictionary

  1. what say
  2. what say you
  3. what seems to be the problem
  4. what should I do
  5. what someone is about
  6. what someone is made of
  7. what someone said
  8. what someone says goes
  9. what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive
  10. what that mouth do
  11. what the

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