she
/ʃiː/
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Meaning
noun
A female.
“Pat is definitely a she.”
pronoun
(personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
“After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.”
pronoun
(personal, sometimes affectionate) A ship or boat.
“She could do forty knots in good weather.”
pronoun
(personal, sometimes affectionate, old-fashioned) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
“She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.”
pronoun
(personal, old-fashioned) Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
“She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.”