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her

[hur; unstressed her, er]

pronoun

the objective case of she: We saw her this morning. Give this book to her.

the possessive case of she (used as an attributive adjective): Her coat is the one on the chair. I'm sorry about her leaving. Compare hers.

the dative case of she: I gave her the book.

Informal. (used instead of the pronoun she in the predicate after the verb to be): It's her. It isn't her.

noun

Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English her(e), Old English hire, genitive and dative of hēo she (feminine of hē he¹)

Usage note
See he¹, me.

Example Sentences

She was sitting at the patio table at her home here, chatting with her family.

In her home office, she cues up a videotape from her archive to demonstrate her research method.

Her position in the primaries may be even more promising than he puts.

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She was sitting at the patio table at her home here, chatting with her family.

In her home office, she cues up a videotape from her archive to demonstrate her research method.

Her position in the primaries may be even more promising than he puts.

Slumped on a dirty floor, this young girl constantly scratches her skin due to an illness.

Then, her face noticeably stiff, she begins to talk softly to her baby.

Wertheim says it would be hubristic to claim that her project alone could make people care about endangered reefs.

Since yesterday morning, she's been creeping around the cage as though her body hurts, stepping tentatively and slowly.

The molecules of her arm blended with the molecules in the wall.

In popular mythology, she is the ogre responsible for warping her children's.

It's unusual for a university's top lawyer to lose his or her job over an athletics scandal.

For months, and with four small children, she lodged with her mother-in-law.

She discusses her first failure, the hardships of the ocean, and the.

Now she finds herself revisiting her earliest, groundbreaking work in computers, which she.

Yet the last three years have brightened her outlook.

Her stepdad is a diesel mechanic who used to help her work on her car.

Two years later she had received her degree in physics and the following year received her mathematics degree.

In an interview, the justice describes her anticipation as she waited for the president's call.

Rachel is not alone in having voiced her concerns about her skills.

She is unlikely to gather enough signatures, despite her persuasive ways.

Cuddling with her mother, this leopard cub has much to learn.

Her repeated efforts to obtain employment in one of the laboratories seemed to avail her nothing.

By singing of her own hardships, she has given strength to others.

Her inventory runs from flea-market finds and charming toys to elegant handbags.

The combination of her emotive style, clever lyrics and genuinely.

But then he grabbed her and handcuffed her hands behind her back.

Her children and many of her grandchildren were able to say goodbye.

Claudel's gift was her innate talent for creating sensual sculptures that pulse with life and seem to defy gravity.

Her versatility and talent enables her to sing many styles of music, and her.

The nature of the congresswoman's injury, along with prompt emergency care kept her alive.

She leans casually on her spinning frame, staring out at the camera, dressed in a filthy work smock.

She shares her tips on how to incorporate global treasures and travel souvenirs.

She hopes it might help her get into art school and earn her some commissions.

Her campaign's controlling instincts go beyond the candidate's makeup and wardrobe.

She kept her faculties to the end and could say goodbye to us.

Great trucks thundered past, showering her with grit, and a fierce wind got up that made her stagger.

They told her it was from dental x-rays, but she knew she had never had one.

According to her husband, she would smack her lips during her seizures and fumble with her hands.

Her bare feet, planted firmly, are slick with black grease.

Charlotte too is starting to lose the feathers on her chest, making her look slight.

She wants to perform without touching her computer.

Ketzel the cat, the accidental composer who won notice for her only piano composition, has died.

She is currently having difficulty with her meds, but hopes to find one that works soon.

Barely out of her teens when she released her first.

Inside it, a turtle rips at the shell with a sharp point on her beak.

Her parents encouraged her tendencies, reminding her not to get dirty.

Needless to say, many fabled stories of her life are partly fiction.

She hired locals to help her pull weeds, and a farmer down the road taught her how to harvest the flowers using a sickle.

We found her in a doorway, after she apparently put her shoes on before taking her little stroll.

From her perspective, my career is not an upward ascent but a precipitous fall from grace.

Her powerful, stark images have been copied by two generations of black-and-white photographers.

It may take more than a day for her to come out of her shell.

Finally, it is good for maintaining the physicians godlike image in the eyes of his or her patients.

Remember her life and work by way of portraits and jewelry on.

In her book, she describes how many regional ingredients.

Varner kept a knife underneath her pillow and pulled it when the police entered her home.

Her stands have sometimes brought hostile reactions.

Armed with interviews with her psychotherapist as well as.

Watch as a mother polar bear teaches her young the secrets of hunting, fighting, and.

It could be because of her deep affection for esoteric and cunning.

Anthony spent her life fighting for social reform, namely for a woman's right to vote.

Behind her, fresh flowers suck up water in tall buckets on the shaded porch that wraps around her big yellow farmhouse.

Although she's not cynical when it comes to tech, her arch perspective on the world makes her the perfect pitch person for our.

Callers to her home must get past a screening service.

And she was carring the breast milk with her because that is the only way to maintain quality control.

Her eggs fall into the deeper chamber, up to four at a time.

It took her several minutes to remember the man, who.

Her task is to remove the last layer of deteriorated paper that backs the.

Style expert reveals her clever storage solutions for tiny spaces.

Her airplanes are flying and her engines are turning.

Most recently she has been criticized for her opposition.

But she is also a fascinating figure in her own right.

She's sitting up in her bed with blood streaming down her face and pooled in her hands.

Storm's psychiatrist encouraged her to express her alternative personalities by writing and drawing while in a trancelike state.

She was dressed in jeans and a soft gray sweater, her voluminous.

Her garden is situated downhill from her house, but she.

To figure out what your customer wants, look at her texts for a week.

Sherwin listed her as its sole author, and argued that estrogen could help treat memory loss in older patients.

Her new autobiography shows that life is too complex for that.

The little sister, however, was dreadfully frightened when she saw that her fawn was hurt.

Her explorations of ethics, scientific knowledge-building, and how they are.

Her work has frequently tested the boundaries between architecture and art-a tension that she cultivates.

Instead of cooking for mom, plan a day of cooking an amazing meal with her.

Her friends' bedrooms were bugged and their conversations about her added to the file.

With pregnant teenagers, it is tough to remember how she looks at the world at her age.

Her daughter once asked to be admitted to the children's home where her mother worked after the war, in order to see more of her.

Satin was nursing her own kittens, and exhausted workers hoped she might be willing to add one more to her family.

Listening to it and performing it was a big part of her life.

She is best known as a writer, for her numerous books of poetry and her six poignant memoirs, including the.

One of her specialties is twice-baked beef brisket topped with slow-cooked onions.

If she ever lost her job, she knows that she would need a bachelor's degree to find another one.

But there is still something of her father in the imposing frame, gravelly voice and flair for.

Looking into her eyes i saw the pain of an untold story of her future.

Schick questioned his nurse why she would not put the flowers in water, she explained that she had her period.

After a little while the blond girl handed her cellphone to her sister, who read a text message and laughed.

It's also timely: see her post about the tomato-ripening struggles we've all had this year.

Provide her with a mental script of a response to a bully.

The blind can see, a one-armed woman can fold her shirts.

The doctors placed her into a brain scanner, and asked her to scratch her cheek with her phantom limb.

Her body got caught in a thorn bush, and she escaped by rolling into the water for a swim back to her cage.

Her pots go together quickly, and they look great from the moment they're planted.

For centuries her skill in devices of one sort and another has been known and accepted.

Ginger had to make a shaky craft of her paycheck to bear me across the sea.

The eye-black patches under her eyes are there partly to cut the glare but mostly to provide a look of intimidation.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

heraldic.

heraldry.

pronoun

the female person or animal being discussed or last mentioned; that female.

the woman: She who listens learns.

anything considered, as by personification, to be feminine: spring, with all the memories she conjures up.

noun

a female person or animal.

an object or device considered as female or feminine.

Origin:
1125–75; Middle English, alteration of Old English sēo, sīo, sīe, feminine of se the¹; replacing Old English hēo, hīo, feminine personal pronoun; see he¹, her

Usage note
See he¹, me, they.

Link To her

Collins

World English Dictionary

her (hɜː, (unstressed) hə, ə)

—*pron*
1.	refers to a female person or animal: he loves her; they sold her a bag; something odd about her; lucky her!
2.	refers to things personified as feminine or traditionally to ships and nations
3.	chiefly (US) a dialect word for herself : she needs to get her a better job

—*determiner*
4.	of, belonging to, or associated with her: her silly ideas; her hair; her smoking annoys me

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Word Origin & History

her

O.E. hire, third pers. sing. fem. dat. pronoun, which beginning in 10c. replaced acc. hie (see he). Cognate with O.Fris. hiri, M.Du. hore, Du. haar, O.H.G. iru, Ger. ihr.

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her

O.E. hire, third pers. sing. fem. gen. form of heo "she."

she

c.1154, probably evolved from O.E. seo, sio (acc. sie), fem. of demonstrative pronoun se "the." The O.E. word for "she" was heo, hio, however by 13c. the pronunciation of this had converged by phonetic evolution with he "he," so the fem. demonstrative pronoun probably was used in its place (cf. similar

development in Du. zij, Ger. sie, Gk. he, etc.). The original h- survives in her. A relic of the O.E. pronoun is in Manchester-area dial. oo "she." She-devil "difficult woman" first recorded 1840.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

HER
Hercules (constellation)

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