Definition of "she" in английский

pronoun

1. (personal) The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.

   • I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.
   • After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.
   • She seems a clever girl, your Isabel.

2. (personal, sometimes endearing) A ship or boat.

   • She could do forty knots in good weather.
   • She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?

3. (personal, dated, sometimes endearing) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.

   • She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.

4. (personal, endearing or poetic, chiefly dated) A thing, especially a machine or other object, 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.

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).

noun

1. A female.

   • Pat is definitely a she.
   • A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.

verb

1. (transitive) To refer to (someone) using she/her pronouns.

determiner

1. (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of her.