her

  • pronoun third person sing. 1 used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a female person or animal previously mentioned. 2 referring to a ship, country, or other inanimate thing regarded as female.

  • possessive determiner 1 belonging to or associated with a female person or animal previously mentioned. 2 (Her) used in titles.

  — PHRASES her indoors Brit. informal, humorous one’s wife.

  — ORIGIN Old English.

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