HIMS

Noun

hims

plural of him

Anagrams

• HMIS, HMIs, Mish, SHIM, Shim, mish, shim

Source: Wiktionary


HIM

Him, pron.

Definition: Them. See Hem. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Him, pron. Etym: [AS. him, dat. of he. sq. root183. See He.]

Definition: The objective case of he. See He. Him that is weak in the faith receive. Rom. xiv. 1. Friends who have given him the most sympathy. Thackeray.

Note: In old English his and him were respectively the genitive and dative forms of it as well as of he. This use is now obsolete. Poetically, him is sometimes used with the reflexive sense of himself. I never saw but Humphrey, duke of Gloster, Did bear him like a noble gentleman. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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