She
Honorific alternative letter-case form of she, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
She (plural She)
An ethnic group in southern China.
A language of the Hmong-Mien language family spoken by the She people.
• EH&S, EHS, Esh, HSE, ehs, esh, he's, hes, hse
she third-person singular, feminine, nominative case (accusative and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself)
(personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
(personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
(personal, dated, sometimes affectionate, old-fashioned) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
(personal, affectionate or poetic, old-fashioned) Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
(personal, nonstandard) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
• Since at least the 1920s and 30s, some gay or queer men refer to other gay or queer men and/or themselves with she/her pronouns, as well as with other feminine terms such as Miss and girl, to signal their sexuality rather than their gender identity; this has sometimes been termed "the gay she"
she
(African-American Vernacular) synonym of her
she (plural shes)
A female.
• EH&S, EHS, Esh, HSE, ehs, esh, he's, hes, hse
SHE (plural SHEs)
Initialism of standard hydrogen electrode.
• EH&S, EHS, Esh, HSE, ehs, esh, he's, hes, hse
Source: Wiktionary
She, pron. [sing. nom. She; poss. Her. ( or Hers (; obj. Her; pl. nom. They; poss. Their or Theirs (; obj. Them.] Etym: [OE. she, sche, scheo, scho, AS. seĂł, fem. of the definite article, originally a demonstrative pronoun; cf. OS. siu, D. zij, G. sie, OHG. siu, si, si, Icel. su, sja, Goth. si she, so, fem. article, Russ. siia, fem., this, Gr. sa, sya. The possessive her or hers, and the objective her, are from a different root. See Her.]
1. This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of. She loved her children best in every wise. Chaucer. Then Sarah denied, . . . for she was afraid. Gen. xviii. 15.
2. A woman; a female; -- used substantively. [R.] Lady, you are the cruelest she alive. Shak.
Note: She is used in composition with nouns of common gender, for female, to denote an animal of the female sex; as, a she-bear; a she- cat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
13 November 2024
(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so; “for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent”; “the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies”; “the ostensible truth of their theories”; “his seeming honesty”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
