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she

[ shee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

pronoun

objective: herpossessive: their or theirssingular nominative: sheobjective: thempossessive: her or hersplural nominative: they

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

, plural shes.

a female person or animal.
an object or device considered as female or feminine.

s/he

[ shee-er-hee, shee-hee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

pronoun

she or he: used as an orthographic device to avoid a gender-specific pronoun when the gender of the antecedent is unknown or irrelevant.

she

/ ʃiː /

pronoun

refers to a female person or animal
she's a fine mare
she is a doctor
refers to things personified as feminine, such as cars, ships, and nations
See it
an informal word for it 1
she'll be right
she's apples

noun

1. a female person or animal
2. ( in combination )
  she-cat

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Gender Note

See he ¹, me, they.

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Usage

See me 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of she¹

1125–75; Middle English, alteration of Old English sēo, sīo, sīe, feminine of se the ¹; replacing Old English hēo, hīo, feminine personal pronoun; he ¹, her