Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- pro. Used to refer to the woman or girl previously mentioned or implied. See Usage Note at I1.
- pro. Used to refer to a female animal.
- pro. Used in place of it to refer to certain inanimate things, such as ships and nations, traditionally perceived as female: "The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female” ( Anne Sexton).
- n. A female animal or person: Is the cat a she?
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 3d pers. fem., possessive her or hers, objective her; nom. pl. they, possessive their or theirs, objective them. The nominative feminine of the pronoun of the third person, used as a substitute for the name of a female, or of something personified in the feminine. Compare he, especially for the forms her, hers.
- She is often used by people of small education or of comparatively secluded lives for the female that is chief in importance to the speaker, especially a wife; in this case it has a peculiar emphasis, separating the person referred to from all other women: as, “Sit down, she 'll be here in a minute.” Compare the similar use of he.
- She was formerly and is still dialectally sometimes used as an indeclinable form.
- In the English of the Scotch Highlanders she is commonly used for he; so her for his.
- n. A female person; a woman: correlative to he, a man.
- n. A female animal; a beast, bird, or fish of the female sex: correlative to he, a male animal: hence used attributively or as an adjective prefix, signifying ‘female,’ with names of animals, or, in occasional or humorous use, of other beings: as, a she-bear, a she-cat, a she-devil, etc. See he, n., 2.
Wiktionary
- pro. personal A female person or animal.
- pro. personal A ship or country.
- pro. personal, affectionate Machinery such as cars and steam engines.
- pro. personal, nonstandard he/she. used arbitrarily with he for an indefinite person in order to be gender-neutral.
- n. A female.
GNU Webster's 1913
- pro. This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
- pro. rare A woman; a female; -- used substantively.
Etymologies
- From Middle English sche, hye ("she"), from earlier scho, hyo, ȝho ("she"), a phonetic development of Old English hēo, hīo ("she"), from Proto-Germanic *hijō (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *k'e-, *k'ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with English dialectal hoo ("she"), Scots scho, shu ("she"), West Frisian hja ("she"), North Frisian jü ("she"), Danish hun ("she"), Swedish hon ("she"). More at he. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, probably alteration of Old English sēo, feminine demonstrative pron.; see so- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As she reports in the journal�Science, �she was able develop a computer model that used 150 genetic markers, specific bits of DNA scattered around the 23 pairs of human chromosomes, to predict who would be able to join the centenarian club.”
“ The blatant bounce in her breasts as she jogged gave away one simple, undeniable truth: she was the neighborhood slut.”
“And if Palin does run for president in 2012 she would get stomped so badly, by her own party, that they would need her dental records to identify her..she doesnt have an ice cubes chance in hell of winning!”
Welcome to the Tea Party: Infighting plagues conservative group
“Now, she& BIll are acting just like Southerners who refuse to accept they loss the Civil War, she continues to wave her confederate flag and rally her starsandbars crowd with noise about 'symbolic' balloting and 'honoringandrespecting' their LOSS.”
Obama Took Heat Early On For Being Too Soft On Hillary, Remember?
“Hillary just kicked a field goal, and is now berating the referees because she doesn't understand why * she* shouldn't be the winner ....”
“ Looking back it just seemed she was feeling sorry for herself: she wasn't pretty, she didn't keep friends for very long, she was lonely, she was unhappy with the world, she couldn't even put into words what this life was for.”
“Nadya says she loves kids……..she needs to have enough “love” for them so they may have proper, loving care.”
“Abortion is not even the issue here..she chose to be implanted so it was not like she was having sex and Oops she got pregnant…she CHOSE to be implanted.”
“Josh Jackson always impresses with his enthusiasm for whatever project he is involved with and he seems to really know his stuff with the whole concept of 'Fringe'. poor Anna seemed a little overwhelmed and unsure of what she was or was not allowed to say on camera..she will have mastered her interview technique by the start of the 2nd season of the show, hopefully!”
“And after a time, seeing the plants she has planted as seeds grow up and then bloom, for the first time in a long time…..she smiles.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘she’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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One word book titles
More popular books often have shorter titles. Here is a list of one word book titles
blink, Freakonomics, roots, sugar, banjo, rising, cane, crave, emotions, love, until, dune and 118 more...
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Words Heard Too Often In Songs
Words overused in modern pop music.
Also see ruzuzu's list: Words that should be heard in songs more often.love, heart, dance, dancefloor, down, take, want, night, fight, baby, like, ooooh and 136 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Kangaroo Words 2
Kangaroo words with joey-antonyms, e.g., pest/pet
pest, friend, giant, cremate, covert, there, feast, wonderful, animosity, inattentive, electrocuted, rectitude and 54 more...
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core words
my, I, mine, your, his, hers, him, her, their, theirs, our, ours and 34 more...
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ROT13 Pairs
Nabbed from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT-13#Letter_games_and_net_culture: words that become other existing words (or failing that, acronyms) when a Caesar shift of 13 places is applied to them.
aha, nun, ant, nag, balk, onyx, bar, one, barf, ones, be, or and 64 more...
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Resident Pipsiculturalist Makes Huge ...
See comments on pipsiculture and homosexuality, which have nothing to do with each other except that I read comments on them at around the same time on the same day.
See also the list ...heterosexuality, homosexuality, agriculture, argumentative, that, article, thus, make, do, the, interesting, like and 106 more...
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bootload's Words
grouse, beaut, ripper, gassit, hack, hacking, twit, spon, goon, rosella, magpie, galah and 184 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Notre Dame de Paris
From Notre Dame de Paris by good ole Victor Hugo. (Also called The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
cuivres, diable, hawthorn, provost, epithalamium, affrighted, mendicants, vagrants, Styx, chimeras, coif, matagrabolise and 196 more...
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ttobba's Words
graph, amore, labrador, sun, boreal, norsk, coffee, cafe, pekin, peking, train, rail and 97 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for she.

lampbane "She's figured out
All her doubts were someone else's point of view
Waking up this time
To smash the silence with the brick of self-control" Aug 29, 2008
reesetee Hahaha! Amazing...I didn't even see it coming. Jul 11, 2008
bilby "Sorry I couldn't come to the party. Dad and That wouldn't let me." Jul 11, 2008
plethora I think I'll start calling my mother that. Jul 11, 2008
she Mmn, schlocklist sounds like it has some relation to chocolate. (Dontcry, eerie that you'd say that now!) Jul 11, 2008
skipvia I don't know, bilby--a schlock list has a lot of appeal. Go for it! Jul 11, 2008
dontcry "She Who Must Be Obeyed..." - that's what we call my mother!
*rock, rock, rock.* Jul 11, 2008
bilby I was going to say we could do a Schlock list, but most of mine are anyway :-( Jul 11, 2008
she Oh, I do like pre-1940s schlock! And 1940s schlock (mostly Betty Grable musicals). She was just the product of deciding against using anything I might get tired of and going for the first word I half-wondered may not've been taken. I'm sure there are all sorts of nice little words wandering around with no claimants.. Jul 11, 2008
skipvia Great movie, too--if you like pre-1940s schlock. "She Who Must Be Obeyed..." Jul 10, 2008
Prolagus One of the reasons why I appreciated your username is that you thought of it while signing up. So simple, and still... Jul 10, 2008
she She is, she is (a she. Is me)! Such a sticky nickname (stickinick? ..baskets?) from such a little pronoun. Jul 10, 2008
jennarenn she may not be a her. We dunno. Jul 7, 2008
oroboros sHE May 2, 2008