hir
UK/hɪə(ɹ)/US/hɪɹ/
hir pronoun: them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
Pronoun
hir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)
- Them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
- But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.1988, Jeffrey Carver, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 232
- I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online.1996 June, Caitlin Sullivan with Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure, New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC PS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page 10
Determiner
hir
- Belonging to hir, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.
- Getting down to cases now, a child's learning, L, in the sixth grade will be a function of a number, say k, of variables X1 X2, X3, ... Xk representing hir (hir is an abbreviation for his or her and is pronounced here) previous education, motivation, rapport with teachers, peers' atitudes toward...1971 March 1, Alexander M. Mood, “Partitioning Variance in Multiple Regression Analyses as a Tool For Developing Learning Models”, in American Educational Research Journal, volume 8, number 2...
- But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.1988, Jeffrey Carver, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 232
Examples of hir in a sentence
- Words like "freak" became attached to hir name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir.1997 December 18, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely...
- It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep.1996 June, Caitlin Sullivan with Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure, New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN...
- A lifelong political activist, Leslie Feinberg (who used the pronoun hir) devoted most of hir writing to exploring the complexities of gender.2023 June 22, Kurt Soller, Liz Brown, Rose Courteau, Kate Guadagnino, Sara Holdren, “The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer...
Synonyms of hir
Forms of hir
| reflexive | hirself |
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Origin of hir
Blend of him/his + her.
Words formed from hir
Words that rhyme with hir
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- spear
- career
- fear
- here
- steer
- appear
- cavalier
- cheer
- leer
- pioneer
- queer
- volunteer
- adhere
- beer
- chandelier
- deer
- financier
- pier
- premier
- privateer
- sheer
- veer
- vizier
- austere
- bombardier
- brigadier
- cashmere
- commandeer
- disappear
- endear
- grenadier
- interfere
- mere
- mountaineer
- peer
- sear
- tear
- tier
- unclear
- arrear
- bier
- blear
- cameleer
- cashier
- chiffonier
- cohere
- fakir
- farseer
Questions about hir
- What does hir mean?
- Hir means them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
- How do you use hir in a sentence?
- Words like "freak" became attached to hir name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir.
- What part of speech is hir?
- Hir can be a pronoun or a determiner.
- How do you pronounce hir?
- Hir is pronounced /hɪə(ɹ)/ (UK).
Words near hir in the dictionary
Source and license
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