her

Meaning

Det

1. Belonging to her (belonging to that female, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
2. Belonging to a person of unspecified gender (to counterbalance the traditional "his" in this sense).

Pron

The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc.

Noun

A female person or animal.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhɜː(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative and genitive singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”).

Sentences

I never saw her before .

The woman subsequently died from her injuries .

Isaac raised her to " Augusta ".

She wears upon her head a mural crown and veil .

She spent the rest of her life as Dowager Queen in Bohemia .

Cocker won awards for her successful new rose varieties .

The role catapulted her onto the Hollywood A-list .

In them she shares her discouragement at her physical decline and progressive blindness .