she Meaning & Definition
What Does She Mean?
She is used as a symbol meaning ISO 639-3 language code for Sheko. As a pronoun, it means The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied. As a noun, it means A female.
She at a Glance
| Part of speech | symbol, pronoun, noun, verb, determiner |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /hjoː/ |
| Plural | shes |
She Definition (Symbol)
- ISO 639-3 language code for Sheko.
She as a Pronoun
- The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.
- A ship or boat.
She could do forty knots in good weather.
- A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
- 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.
- A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant .
- The Catholic Church.
She as a Noun
- A female.
Pat is definitely a she.
She as a Verb
- To refer to (someone) using she/her pronouns.
She as a Determiner
- Synonym of her.
Pronoun
- (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.
- (personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
She could do forty knots in good weather.
- (personal, sometimes affectionate, old-fashioned) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
- (personal, old-fashioned) Any machine or thing, 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.
- (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
Synonyms of She
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She synonyms and antonyms →She in a Sentence
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.
After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.
She seems a clever girl, your Isabel.
She could do forty knots in good weather.
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
The tanker is 25 years old but she is still very seaworthy.
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
Pat is definitely a she.
Word Forms & Grammar
she (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case, oblique and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself)
she (plural shes)
she
Words That Rhyme With She
Origin of She
Origin 1: Inherited from Middle English sche, scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo (“she”), Scots she, sho (“she”).
Origin 2: Probably from Old English hēo[1][2] (whence dialectal English hoo), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō /hjoː/, then a development from /hj-/ to /ç/ to /ʃ-/,[3][4] similar to the derivation of Shetland from Old Norse Hjaltland. In this case, she is from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”), and is cognate with Saterland Frisian jo, ju, West Frisian hja, North Frisian jü, Danish hun, Swedish hon; more at he.
Origin 3: A derivation from Old English sēo (“that one”, occasionally “she”) is also possible, though less likely.[2][3][4] In that case, sēo would have undergone a change in stress from sēo to seō /sjoː/, then a change from /sj-/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of sure from Old French seur.[4][5] It would then be cognate to Dutch zij and German sie.
Origin 4: Neither etymology would be expected to yield the modern vocalism in /iː/ (the expected form would be shoo, which is in fact found dialectally). It may be due to influence from he,[1] but both hēo and sēo also have rare variants (hīe and sīe) that may give modern English /iː/.[4][6]