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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Used as a modifier before a noun: her boots; her accomplishments.
  2. pro. Used as the direct object of a verb: They saw her at the conference.
  3. pro. Used as the indirect object of a verb: They gave her a round of applause.
  4. pro. Used as the object of a preposition: This letter is addressed to her.
  5. pro. Informal Used as a predicate nominative: It's her.
  6. pro. Nonstandard Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb: She got her a new job. See Note at me.
  7. n. A female: The dog is a her. See Usage Notes at be, I1.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. See under he.
  2. An abbreviation of heraldry.

Wiktionary

  1. pro. attributive Belonging to her.
  2. pro. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. prep. The form of objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she.
  2. prep. obsolete Of them; their.

Etymologies

  1. From Proto-Germanic *hezōi. Cognate with Dutch haar, Middle Low German er(e) and North Frisian hör. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English hire. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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