Definition of "she"

she

/ʃiː/

pronoun
third-person singular, feminine, nominative case, oblique and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself
1. (personal) The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
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  Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
  1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories‎, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, page 71
2. (personal, sometimes endearing) A ship or boat.
3. (personal, dated, sometimes endearing, old-fashioned) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
4. (personal, endearing or poetic, old-fashioned) Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
  Quotations
  Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in and possess. Summer is the great consummation.
  1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765
  She is my 57 Chevy / My 57 Chevy runs so fine / No one can beat my 57 Chevy
  1977, “57 Chevy”, in Kansas City Slickers, performed by The Leopards
5. (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).
  Quotations
  Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.
  1990, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow
determiner
1. (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of her
noun
plural shes
1. A female.
  Quotations
  Come, come, we know very well what all the matter is; but if one won’t, another will; so pretty a gentleman need never want a lady. I am sure, if I was you, I would see the finest she that ever wore a head hanged, before I would go for a soldier for her.
  1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […]
  And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.
  1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 130”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
  he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May-day.
  1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848
  Plucked her eyebrows on the way / Shaved her legs and then he was a she
  1972, Lou Reed (lyrics and music), “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer
  A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.
  2000, Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1–2, page 189

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