she Definition

he
pronoun

1. A male person or animal already referred to.
2. A person or animal of unknown or unstated sex, especially after pronouns such as ‘someone' or ‘whoever'.

Example: A student may attend as he feels necessary
Example: A teacher should do whatever he thinks best

noun

1. A male person or animal. Also in compounds.

Example: he-goat
2. In children's games: same as tag² noun, it¹ noun 1.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon he.

Info:

○ There is no pronoun in English that stands neutrally for male and female. In order to achieve neutrality of gender, many people use he or she, as in: &wbox;

○ This becomes awkward if it has to be sustained in longer sentences, eg if you want to say &wbox; The result is often inconsistency:

○ Other devices such as s/he are not widely accepted. An alternative is to put the whole sentence in the plural:

○ Because of these difficulties, it is common to use they and their as gender-neutral pronouns, especially in less formal contexts:

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she
pronoun

1. A female person or animal, or thing thought of as female (eg a ship), named before or understood from the context.

noun

1. A female person or animal.

adj

1. Female.

Example: she-devil
Example: she-bear

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon seo, feminine form of the definite article which replaced the pronoun heo in the 12c.