she

A1
Pronunciation
/ʃiː/
/ʃi/
Noun
1 definition(s)
1 Definition

A female.

Example Sentences
  • Pat is definitely a she.
Pronoun
5 definition(s)
1 Definition

(personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.

Example Sentences
  • After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.
2 Definition

(personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.

Example Sentences
  • She could do forty knots in good weather.
3 Definition

(personal, sometimes affectionate, old-fashioned) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.

Example Sentences
  • She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
4 Definition

(personal, old-fashioned) Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.

Example Sentences
  • She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
5 Definition

(personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).