she
//ʃiː//
Forms
- Plural
- shes
Definitions
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.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.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.
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.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.The Catholic Church.
1.Synonym of her.
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”).