det
Meaning 1
Synonym of her.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: her
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
she
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
Pronunciation
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UK: /ʃiː/
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UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Canada, US: /ʃi/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Northumbria, unstressed: /ʃə/
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Australian: /ʃiː/
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Australian: [ʃɪi]
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Australian: [ʃɪ̈i]
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homophone: sidhe
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homophone: Xi
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homophone: shee
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rhymes with -iː
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/ʃə/
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/ʃiː/
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CMU ARPABET: SH IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A female.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Pat is definitely a she.
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noun
Meaning 3
Initialism of standard hydrogen electrode.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Meaning 4
Initialism of superheavy element.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Meaning 5
Initialism of safety, health, environment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Meaning 6
Initialism of selective harmonic elimination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
An ethnic group in southern China.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 8
A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by the She people.
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pron
Meaning 9
The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: feminine, nominative, personal, singular, third-person
Examples
- 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.
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pron
Meaning 10
A ship or boat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: endearing, feminine, nominative, personal, singular, sometimes, third-person
Examples
- 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.
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pron
Meaning 11
A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, endearing, feminine, nominative, personal, singular, sometimes, third-person
Examples
- She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
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pron
Meaning 12
A thing, especially a machine or other object, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, endearing, feminine, nominative, personal, poetic, singular, third-person
Examples
- She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
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pron
Meaning 13
A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: feminine, nominative, nonstandard, personal, singular, third-person
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: they
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 14
The Catholic Church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: feminine, nominative, personal, singular, third-person
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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pron
Meaning 15
Honorific alternative letter-case form of she, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, honorific
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verb
Meaning 16
To refer to (someone) using she/her pronouns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sche, scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo (“she”), Scots she, sho (“she”). Probably from Old English hēo (whence dialectal English hoo), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō /hjoː/, then a development from /hj-/ to /ç/ to /ʃ-/, 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. A derivation from Old English sēo (“that one”, occasionally “she”) is also possible, though less likely. 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. It would then be cognate to Dutch zij and German sie. 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, but both hēo and sēo also have rare variants (hīe and sīe) that may give modern English /iː/.
From Mandarin 畲 (Shē).
See she.
Across languages
Translations
295 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 畲語 /畲语 (shēyǔ) — language
- Chinese Mandarin: 畲族 (Shēzú) — people
- Xibe: ᡧᡝᡯᡠ ᡠᡣᠰᡠᠷᠠ (šedzu uksura) — people
- Abkhaz: лара (lara) — person
- Afar: is — person
- Afrikaans: sy — person
- Akan: ɔno — person
- Albanian: ajo — person
- Southern Altai: ол (ol) — person
- Amharic: እሷ (ʾəsswa) — person
- Arabic: هِيَ (hiya) — person
- Chadian Arabic: هي (hī) — person
- Arabic: هي (heyya) — person
- Arabic: هي (hiyya) — person
- Arabic: هي (hiyye) — person
- Aragonese: ella — person
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܗܲܝ (hay) — person
- Aramaic: הי (hī) — person
- Aramaic: ܗܝ (hī) — person
- Western Neo-Aramaic: ܗܝܗ (hīh) — person
- Armenian: նա (na) — person
- Aromanian: ea — person
- Aromanian: ia — person
- Aromanian: nãsã — person
- Aromanian: nãsa — person
- Assamese: তাই (tai) — person
- Assamese: এই (ei) — person
- Assamese: তেওঁ (teü̃) — person
- Assamese: এওঁ (eü̃) — person
- Asturian: ella — person
- Aymara: jupa — person
- Azerbaijani: o — person
- Bambara: a — person
- Bashkir: ул (ul) — person
- Basque: bera — person
- Basque: hura — person
- Belarusian: яна́ (janá) — person
- Bengali: সে (śe) — person
- Bengali: আপনি (apni) — person
- Central Bikol: siya — person
- Bouyei: deel — person
- Breton: hi — person
- Bulgarian: тя (tja) — person
- Burmese: သူမ (suma.) — person
- Burmese: သူ (su) — person
- Carpathian Rusyn: она́ (oná) — person
- Catalan: ella — person
- Chichewa: iye — person
- Chinese Cantonese: 佢 (keoi5) — person
- Chinese Cantonese: 她 (ta1) — person
- Chinese Cantonese: 姖 (keoi5) — person
- Chinese: та (ta) — person
- Eastern Min Chinese: 伊 (ĭ) — person
- Hakka Chinese: 佢 (kì, yì) — person
- Chinese: 伊 (zh-min-nan) — person
- Jin Chinese: 她 (ta1) — person
- Chinese Mandarin: 她 (tā) — person
- Chinese Mandarin: 他 (tā) — person
- Chinese Mandarin: 伊 (yī) — person
- Teochew: 伊 (i1) — person
- Wu Chinese: 伊 — person
- Chuvash: вӑл (văl) — person
- Ngazidja Comorian: ye — person
- Cornish: hi — person
- Corsican: ella — person
- Corsican: edda — person
- Czech: ona — person
- Dalmatian: jala — person
- Danish: hun — person
- Dutch: zij — person
- Egyptian: s (.s) — person
- Egyptian: s-y (sj) — person
- Egyptian: s-t:t (stt) — person
- Egyptian: n:t-s (nts) — person
- Egyptian: ti-i (.tj) — person
- Emilian: lî — person
- Erzya: сон (son) — person
- Esperanto: ŝi — person
- Estonian: tema — person
- Ewe: eya — person
- Fala: ela — person
- Faroese: hon — person
- Fijian: koya — person
- Finnish: hän — person
- Finnish: se — person
- French: elle — person
- Old French: ele — person
- West-Frisian: hja — person
- West-Frisian: sy — person
- Friulian: jê — person
- Galician: ela — person
- Georgian: ის (is) — person
- German: sie — person
- Greek: αυτή (aftí) — person
- Ancient Greek: ἥδε (hḗde) — person
- Ancient Greek: ἐκείνη (ekeínē) — person
- Ancient Greek: ἡ (hē) — person
- Ancient Greek: ἥ (hḗ) — person
- Greenlandic: una — person
- Mbya Guarani: ha'e — person
- Hausa: ’ítá — person
- Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: nyihá — person
- Hawaiian: ia — person
- Hebrew: הִיא (hi) — person
- Hindi: वह (vah) — person
- Hindi: यह (yah) — person
- White Hmong: nws — person
- Hopi: pam — person
- Hungarian: ő — person
- Icelandic: hún — person
- Ido: el — person
- Ido: elu — person
- Indonesian: dia — person
- Indonesian: ia — person
- Ingrian: hää — person
- Interlingua: illa — person
- Irish: sí — person
- Irish: í — person
- Old Irish: sí — person
- Istriot: gila — person
- Italian: lei — person
- Italian: ella — person
- Japanese: 彼女 (kanojo) — person
- Japanese: あの人 (ano hito) — person
- Japanese: あの方 (ano kata) — person
- Japanese: 奴 (yatsu) — person
- Javanese: dhèwèké — person
- Javanese: piyambakipun — person
- Judeo-Italian: אֵיסַה — person
- Kabuverdianu: el — person
- Kannada: ಇವಳು (ivaḷu) — person
- Kannada: ಅವಳು (avaḷu) — person
- Karakhanid: اُلْ (ol) — person
- Karelian: häi — person
- Kashubian: òna — person
- Kazakh: ол (ol) — person
- Khakas: ол (ol) — person
- Khmer: គាត់ (kŏət) — person
- Khmer: នាង (niəng) — person
- Khmer: អ្នកស្រី (nĕək srəy) — person
- Khmer: លោកស្រី (look srəy) — person
- Khmer: ព្រះនាង (prĕəh niəng) — person
- Khmer: ទ្រង់ (trŭəng) — person
- Korean: 그녀 (geunyeo) — person
- Korean: 그 (geu) — person
- Korean: 이분 (ibun) — person
- Kyrgyz: ал (al) — person
- Ladin: ëila — person
- Lao: ເຂົາ (khao) — person
- Latgalian: jei — person
- Latgalian: šei — person
- Latin: ea — person
- Latin: illa — person
- Latin: haec — person
- Latvian: viņa — person
- Limburgish: het — person
- Limburgish: ze — person
- Lingala: yě — person
- Linngithigh: lu — person
- Lithuanian: ji — person
- Louisiana Creole: li — person
- Low German: sei — person
- Low German: se — person
- Macedonian: таа (taa) — person
- Malay: dia — person
- Malay: ia — person
- Maltese: hi — person
- Manx: ee — person
- Māori: ia — person
- Mazanderani: وه (ve) — person
- Central Sierra Miwok: hís·ak — person
- Mòcheno: si — person
- Moksha: сон (son) — person
- Mongolian: тэр (ter) — person
- Motu: ia — person
- Norwegian Bokmål: hun — person
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ho — person
- Occitan: ela — person
- Old Occitan: ella — person
- Ojibwe: wiin — person
- Church Slavic: она (ona) — person
- Old East Slavic: она (ona) — person
- Old English: hēo — person
- Old Galician-Portuguese: ela — person
- Ossetian: уый (wyj) — person
- Pannonian Rusyn: вона (vona) — person
- Pashto: هغه (haǧë) — person
- Pashto: دا (dā) — person
- Pela: jɔ̃31 — person
- Dari: او (ō) — person
- Dari: وَی (way) — person
- Iranian Persian: او (u) — person
- Iranian Persian: وِی (vey) — person
- Iranian Persian: اوی (uy) — person
- Piedmontese: chila — person
- Pipil: yaja — person
- Pipil: yaha — person
- Pirahã: hi — person
- Pitjantjatjara: ngaa — person
- Pitjantjatjara: pala — person
- Pitjantjatjara: nyara — person
- Pitjantjatjara: palunya — person
- Polish: ona — person
- Portuguese: ela — person
- Quechua: pay — person
- Rapa Nui: ia — person
- Romani: oj — person
- Kalo Finnish Romani: joi — person
- Vlax-Romani: voj — person
- Romanian: dumneaei — person
- Romanian: ea — person
- Romansh: ella — person
- Russian: она́ (oná) — person
- Inari-Sami: sun — person
- Kildin-Sami: со̄нн (sōnn) — person
- Lule-Sami: sån — person
- Northern Sami: son — person
- Skolt-Sami: son — person
- Southern Sami: dïhte — person
- Scottish Gaelic: i (nonemphatic) — person
- Scottish Gaelic: ise — person
- Serbo-Croatian: о̀на — person
- Serbo-Croatian: òna — person
- Sicilian: idda — person
- Sidamo: ise — person
- Sinhalese: ඈ (ǣ) — person
- Slovak: ona — person
- Slovene: ôna — person
- Lower Sorbian: wóna — person
- Upper Sorbian: wona — person
- Spanish: ella — person
- Swahili: yeye — person
- Swedish: hon — person
- Sylheti: ꠔꠣꠁ (tai) — person
- Sylheti: ꠔꠣꠁꠘ (tain) — person
- Tagalog: siya — person
- Tajik: ӯ (ü) — person
- Taos: ą́wąną — person
- Tatar: ул (ul) — person
- Telugu: ఆమె (āme) — person
- Thai: เขา (kǎo) — person
- Thai: เธอ (təə) — person
- Thai: หล่อน (lɔ̀n) — person
- Tigrinya: ንሳ (nəsa) — person
- Tlingit: hú — person
- Tooro: uwe — person
- Tupinambá: a'e — person
- Turkish: o — person
- Turkmen: ol — person
- Udmurt: со (so) — person
- Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎊 (hy) — person
- Ukrainian: вона́ (voná) — person
- Unami: nàni — person
- Urdu: وہ (voh) — person
- Urdu: یہ (yeh) — person
- Uyghur: ئۇ (u) — person
- Uzbek: u — person
- Venetan: eła — person
- Vietnamese: chị ấy — person
- Vietnamese: cô ấy — person
- Vietnamese: bà ấy — person
- Vietnamese: nó — person
- Volapük: of — person
- Walloon: ele — person
- Walloon: elle — person
- Walloon: leye — person
- Welsh: hi — person
- Wolof: moom — person
- Yámana: kitu — person
- Yiddish: זי (zi) — person
- Yoruba: ó — person
- Yoruba: á — person
- Yucatec Maya: letiʼ — person
- Zazaki: a (diq) — person
- Zhuang: de — person
- Zulu: yena — person
- Zulu: wona — person
- Zulu: lona — person
- Zulu: sona — person
- Zulu: yona — person
- Zulu: lona — person
- ǃKung: ha — person
- ǃXóõ: èh — person
- ǃXóõ: èhʻè — person
- ǃXóõ: ã`h — person
- ǃXóõ: ã̀hʻã̀ — person
- Danish: hun — ship
- Esperanto: ĝi — ship
- Finnish: se — ship
- German: es — ship
- German: sie — ship
- Irish: sí — ship
- German: er — country, planet, machine, season etc.
- German: sie — country, planet, machine, season etc.
- German: es — country, planet, machine, season etc.