he
Forms
- Plural
- hes
Definitions
1.The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.
2.A male.(informal)
- Is your cat a he or a she?
3.The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- This Nehama claimed that in his own hand he recognized the consonant “he” of his Hebrew language, and in the letter “vav” his own male soul.
- The same number in the Hebrew mysteries and Cabalistical accounts was the character of Generation; declared by the Letter He, the fifth in their Alphabet.
4.The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
1.A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.
- That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.
- "It was he we saw the tracks of down by Rausand hill."
2.It; an animal whose gender is unknown.
3.A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.
4.They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).
- The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #16
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Common
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱís (“this”).