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she

//ʃiː//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Determiner

A word placed before a noun to show which person or thing is meant, or how much or how many.

Pronoun

A word that replaces or refers to a noun or noun phrase.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for she

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Forms

Plural
shes

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A female.

    • And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.
    • A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.
    • “They were all hairy-faced bulls but one,” he said, “and that one was a she, lighter in color even than this stranger,” and he chucked a thumb at Tarzan.
  2. 2.An ethnic group in southern China.

    • She seemed to be very surprised.
    • She thinks of her boss as a father.
    • She does not have many friends in Kyoto.
  3. 3.A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by the She people.

    • She seemed to be very surprised.
    • She thinks of her boss as a father.
    • She does not have many friends in Kyoto.

Pronoun

A word that replaces or refers to a noun or noun phrase.

  1. 1.The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.

    • She seems a clever girl, your Isabel.
    • I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.
    • After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.
  2. 2.A ship or boat.

    • She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
    • She could do forty knots in good weather.
    • The tanker is 25 years old but she is still very seaworthy.
  3. 3.The Catholic Church.

Determiner

A word placed before a noun to show which person or thing is meant, or how much or how many.

  1. 1.Synonym of her.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To refer to (someone) using she/her pronouns.

    • If somebody wants to go by “he,” continually “sheing” them [is invalidating].

Frequency

Overall

Very common· #35

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Common
General reading & writing
Common
Academic
Rare
Literature
Very common

Related words

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sche, scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo (“she”), Scots she, sho (“she”).

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