pronoun
1.
the objective case of she: We saw her this morning. Give this book to her.
2.
3.
the dative case of she: I gave her the book.
4.
Informal. (used instead of the pronoun she in the predicate after the verb to be ): It's her. It isn't her.
noun
5.
Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
she
[shee] pronoun, singular nominative she, possessive her or hers, objective her; plural nominative they, possessive their or theirs, objective them; noun, plural shes. pronoun
1.
the female person or animal being discussed or last mentioned; that female.
2.
the woman: She who listens learns.
3.
anything considered, as by personification, to be feminine: spring, with all the memories she conjures up.
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her (hɜː, (unstressed) hə, ə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 |
| her. | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| 1. | heraldic |
| 2. | heraldry |
| she (ʃiː) | |
| —pron | |
| 1. | refers to a female person or animal: she is a doctor; she's a fine mare |
| 2. | refers to things personified as feminine, such as cars, ships, and nations |
| 3. | (Austral), (NZ) an informal word for it : she's apples; she'll be right |
| —n | |
| 4. | a. a female person or animal |
| b. (in combination): she-cat | |
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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.
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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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
| her. heraldry |
| HER Hercules (constellation) |
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Example sentences
She kept her faculties to the end and could say goodbye to us.
Schick questioned his nurse why she would not put the flowers in water, she explained that she had her period.
Two years later she had received her degree in physics and the following year received her mathematics degree.
Callers to her home must get past a screening service.
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