Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
pron
Hir, themselves; gender-neutral third-person singular object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with gendered himself and herself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: gender-neutral, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, reflexive, singular, third-person
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Sie; an intensive repetition of a gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of a predicate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: emphatic, gender-neutral, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, reflexive, singular, third-person
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From hir + -self, following pattern of herself, himself, and itself.
