she's

Pronoun

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.
2. (endearing, feminine, nominative, personal, singular, sometimes) A ship or boat.
   • She could do forty knots in good weather.
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.
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

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