hers

[hurz]

pronoun

1. a form of the possessive case of she used as a predicate adjective.

   The red umbrella is hers. Are you a friend of hers?

2. that or those belonging to her.

   Hers is the biggest garden on the block. Hers are the yellow ones.

hers

/ hɜːz /

pronoun

1. something or someone belonging to or associated with her

   hers is the nicest dress

   that cat is hers

2. belonging to or associated with her

Word History and Origins

Origin of hers¹

1300–50; Middle English hirs, equivalent to hire her + -s 's ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of hers¹

C14 hires; see _her

Example Sentences

Traditional targets for LDL-C were 150 or 120; if my grandmother could have gotten hers down to less than 70, it might have protected her brain.

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“Whenever a song of hers comes on at our party, people start screaming, they’re jumping onstage. That feeling of tangibly belonging to a community is what Futch was born out of.”

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A Mexican-American pickleball friend of hers has started carrying around her birth certificate, said O’Hara, who was at Wrigley Field for the Chicago Cubs game 3 in the National League Division Series.

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Despite insisting that her now-teenage kids leave their cellphones in another room for meals, she heard hers ring in her pocket—and answered it.

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For all her passion about what she sees as institutional injustice, Lauper takes a generous view of individuals whose politics diverge from hers.

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