she
pronoun
the female person or animal being discussed or last mentioned; that female.
she
1 American
[shee]
/ ʃi /
pronoun
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they,
plural nominative
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her,
possessive, objective
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them,
objective
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hers,
possessive
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their,
possessive
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theirs
possessive
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the female person or animal being discussed or last mentioned; that female.
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the woman.
She who listens learns.
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anything considered, as by personification, to be feminine.
spring, with all the memories she conjures up.
noun
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shes
plural
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a female person or animal.
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an object or device considered as female or feminine.
s/he
2
American
[shee-er-hee, shee-hee]
/ ˈʃi ərˈhi, ˈʃiˈhi /
pronoun
she
British
/ ʃiː /
pronoun
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refers to a female person or animal
she is a doctor
she's a fine mare
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refers to things personified as feminine, such as cars, ships, and nations
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an informal word for it 1
she's apples
she'll be right
noun
Gender
See he 1.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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; see he 1, her
Example Sentences
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“The expenses have exceeded their resources and so they’re paying what they can,” she said, noting that credit cards are being used to bridge the gap.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Being behind the scenes made her realize she wanted to apply to drama school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
But as for her career, she wants to push herself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
At the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art she finally found what she calls her tribe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Life for Joey is on an upswing, and she wants to keep it that way.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“No one who knows that the result of honesty is always positive would choose wickedness when s/he is aware that it has a negative reward.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
If that person breaks the office, s/he is like the director of an art museum destroying the artwork within.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2022
"A good-faith debate requires enough humility to acknowledge that we may not know everything and we could be wrong — a no-no for a narcissist who is convinced s/he is always right."
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2022
Genesis’ daughters, Genesse and Caresse, stated their parent, who used s/he as a pronoun, died on 14 March, issuing the following statement via social media:
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2020
S/he begins to have abnormal difficulty in concentrating or suddenly becomes hyper-focused on tasks, resulting in s/he losing track of time and/or neglecting him/herself or others.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
When shes walks up to our table at a cafe in Calabasas, there are no cameras and no filters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Another student wrote: “Mrs. Solomon is special … very organizd and shes fun. … She does not emberes me like other teachers.”
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022
"She's missed important doctors appointments shes had since a baby due to her disability in her eye."
From Fox News ● Jan. 13, 2022
Many females can relate to Ruby #EastEnders & how shes feeling about whats happened & how she feels about herself after.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2018
Old Frau Stresemann, shes one of our neighbors, she says she can hear Deutschlandsender broadcasts in her tooth fillings.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
“The expenses have exceeded their resources and so they’re paying what they can,” she said, noting that credit cards are being used to bridge the gap.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Reconnaissance drones in civilian service would need safeguards, as they could be ripe for exploitation by law enforcement, in much the same manner as the Flock camera network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Once paired, they can condense together into a superconducting state.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
This year, some higher-education and consumer-finance experts expect students will face funding gaps from new caps on federal loans that they could use credit cards to fill.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
His cork cells, though, were empty because they were dead and dried out.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Kayla Hill finds that she’s reaching for her credit card a lot more lately.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
In fact, she was with her classmates at their 10-year reunion when Rock reached out to congratulate her on winning the role of Misty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
In minutes, Bartlett had sketched the makeshift shrine that Helga builds for Arnold in her closet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
“I’m very stressed out about my debt,” Hill, who saves on housing costs by living with her mother, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Her two-year stay stretched into nearly a decade, and her future is uncertain, but Joey is a fighter.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
To make them, firefighters go to homes and businesses in their district to interview residents, understand how they live and map the premises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
CAR-T cell therapy works by supplying T cells with new genetic instructions that help them identify and destroy cancer.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Klein remembers that the actors recorded in the same room together, allowing them to interact more naturally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The “free” things on the table have never actually been free to them.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Philippines has a lot of them, not just oil.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
She said she worked on it for 20 years and paid rent to him under the impression the family farm would one day become hers.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Her friend and posthumous editor, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, recalled that hers seemed a “poetry torn up by the roots.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Williams said social media had made it far easier to build a business like hers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
She hopes one day every L.A. neighborhood will have a network of volunteer-driven TNR groups like hers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Candace exhales and takes Dad’s hand in hers.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“The expenses have exceeded their resources and so they’re paying what they can,” she said, noting that credit cards are being used to bridge the gap.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
In fact, she was with her classmates at their 10-year reunion when Rock reached out to congratulate her on winning the role of Misty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
According to their model, electrons first become correlated through interactions with the metal's underlying lattice.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Years of rising living and college costs have left many with little room in their budgets.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
It’s also possible that their friendship developed while they both fought for the liberation of the Philippines.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Alysson's header in the 2-1 defeat by Forest was their first goal in the Premier League this term, with Spurs still searching for theirs.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Grotts isn’t a fan of honeymoon funds—she called the concept a “money-moon”—but noted that, when giving a couple cash, “it’s theirs to use however they wish.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
She said she wishes California and Congress had acted sooner but hopes a win now will help other Jewish families reclaim what is rightfully theirs in the future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
And here, Walker and Auen offer theirs, fashioning academia into a key that opens a portal to the past, present and future.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
But curiously, she sat on the floor of a stall just like theirs, also locked behind a door.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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