she

Pronoun (1)

she (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case, oblique and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself)

1. (feminine, nominative, personal, singular, third-person) The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
   • I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.
   • After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.
2. (endearing, feminine, nominative, personal, singular, sometimes) A ship or boat.
   • She could do forty knots in good weather.
   • She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
3. (dated, endearing, feminine, nominative, personal, singular) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
   • She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
4. (dated, endearing, feminine, nominative, personal, poetic) A thing, especially a machine or other object, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
   • She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
   • Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in and possess. Summer is the great consummation.1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765
5. (feminine, nominative, nonstandard, personal, singular, third-person) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
   • Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical...1990, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

   Synonyms:

   they

6. (feminine, nominative, personal, singular, third-person) The Catholic Church.
   • The Church is present in the world as a sign of unity for the entire human family. She recognizes today’s questions and challenges as the current setting in which to carry out her particular vocation of listening, dialogue and service, and of being responsive to everything concerning the lives of...2026, Pope Leo XIV, chapter 1, in Magnifica humanitas

Noun (1)

she (plural shes)

1. A female.
   • Pat is definitely a she.
   • Come, come, we know very well what all the matter is; but if one won’t, another will; so pretty a gentleman need never want a lady. I am sure, if I was you, I would see the finest she that ever wore a head hanged, before I would go for a soldier for her.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

Verb

she

1. (transitive) To refer to (someone) using she/her pronouns.
   • If somebody wants to go by “he,” continually “sheing” them [is invalidating].2019 April 16, Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Community-Based Participatory Research: Testimonios from Chicana/o Studies, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 193
   • In his conversation with the woman, Ari would 'he' himself using the masculine pronoun and she would reply by consistently 'sheing' him. Such examples share something about the emotional quality of language[…]2023 December 7, Laura L. Paterson, The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN

Determiner

she

1. (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of her.

   Synonyms:

   her

Noun (2) capitalized: SHE

SHE (plural SHEs)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of standard hydrogen electrode.
2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of superheavy element.
3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of safety, health, environment.

   Synonyms:

   HSE EHS ()

4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of selective harmonic elimination.

Pronoun (2) capitalized: She

She

1. (honorific) Honorific alternative letter-case form of she, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

Proper noun capitalized: She

She

1. A county of Handan, Hebei, China.

Noun (3) capitalized: She

IPA/ʃə/

She (plural She)

1. An ethnic group in southern China.
2. A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by very few She people.