She

Quick meaning: She is a pronoun meaning (personal) The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.

Meaning

(personal) The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.

More Meanings

1. (personal, sometimes endearing) A ship or boat.
2. (personal, dated, sometimes endearing) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
3. A female.
4. (transitive) To refer to (someone) using she/her pronouns.
5. (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of her.
6. (personal, endearing or poetic, chiefly dated) A thing, especially a machine or other object, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
7. (personal, nonstandard) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).

Example Sentences

She seems a clever girl, your Isabel.

She could do forty knots in good weather.

I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.

After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.

Word Forms

• shee
• shes

Synonyms for she

Depending on context, synonyms include they, her.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include woman, lady, wife, girl, mama, mom.

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