s/he

¹ American  

[shee-er-hee, shee-hee] / ˈʃi ərˈhi, ˈʃiˈhi /

pronoun

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

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she ² American  

[shee] / ʃi /

pronoun

singular nominative

she,

possessive

her, hers,

objective

her,

plural nominative

they,

possessive

their, theirs,

objective

them

1. the female person or animal being discussed or last mentioned; that female.

2. the woman.

   She who listens learns.

3. anything considered, as by personification, to be feminine.

   spring, with all the memories she conjures up.

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noun

plural

shes

1. a female person or animal.

2. an object or device considered as female or feminine.

she British  

/ ʃiː /

pronoun

1. refers to a female person or animal

   she is a doctor

   she's a fine mare

2. refers to things personified as feminine, such as cars, ships, and nations

3. an informal word for it 1

   she's apples

   she'll be right

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noun

1. 1. a female person or animal

   2. ( in combination )

      she-cat

Gender

See he ¹.

See he ¹, me, they.

Etymology

Origin of she

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

Example Sentences

Opendoor CEO Kaz Nejatian lauded the president’s move in a post on the social-media website X. In a direct message to Barron’s, he said Opendoor is “definitely not an institutional investor,” adding that the company sells the homes it buys instead of holding on to them.

From Barron's

Opendoor CEO Kaz Nejatian lauded the president’s move in a post on the social-media website X. In a direct message to Barron’s, he said Opendoor is “definitely not an institutional investor,” adding that the company sells the homes it buys instead of holding on to them.

From Barron's

"I'm not going to lie, there are some times I see a player and I think: 'What's he doing in there?'"

From BBC

However, most rebalancing-related flows and price moves appear to have already occurred and there’s unlikely to be meaningful shifts in sentiment between Christmas and New Year’s, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The difficulty that Lachlan has is that he's been in charge for years, but everybody is always going to project that every decision is Rupert's. He's never going to want to say, 'Hey, that's me,' and so I think it's a little hard to come out from Dad's shadow."

From BBC

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