His

Quick meaning: His is a determiner meaning Belonging to him.

Meaning

Belonging to him.

More Meanings

1. (sometimes dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
2. That or those belonging to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
3. (informal) His house or home.
4. plural of hi
5. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
6. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.

Example Sentences

In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]

Yee are the ſalt of the earth: But if the ſalt haue loſt his ſauour, wherewith ſhall it bee ſalted?

My ſtomacke could not well reach ſo farre: it is very much troubled to come to an end of that which it takes for his neede.

With that he put his ſpurres vnto his ſteed, With ſpeare in reſt, and toward him did fare, Like ſhaft out of a bow preuenting ſpeed.

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