he

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Pronunciation
/ˈhiː/
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/ˈhiː/ · [hiː] · [hɪj] · [hi(ː)](US) · [çi(ː)](US) · /(h)i/ · /(h)ɪ/ · /heɪ/ · /ˈhʌ/

Definition of he

26 senses · 7 parts of speech · etymology included

pron

  1. (masculine, nominative, personal, singular, third-person)A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.
    “That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.”
    “[…]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.”
    “"It was he we saw the tracks of down by Rausand hill."”
    “July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.”
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pron

  1. (masculine, nominative, personal, singular, third-person)A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.
    “That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.”
    “[…]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.”
    “"It was he we saw the tracks of down by Rausand hill."”
    “July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.”
  2. (masculine, nominative, personal, proscribed, singular, sometimes, third-person)They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).
    “The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?”
    “First, to avoid the cumbrous ‘he or she’ and ‘his or hers’, and the ungrammatical ‘they’ when used in the singular, I have mostly stuck to saying ‘he’ or ‘his’. I hope that this will be understood in an unchauvinistic, gender-neutral way.”
  3. (masculine, nominative, personal, proscribed, singular, sometimes, third-person)It; an animal whose gender is unknown.
  4. (masculine, nominative, singular, third-person)A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.
    “JUPITER is the largest of all the Planets, his Orbit lies between the Orbits of the Earth and Mars, and at the cast Distance of 426 Millions of Miles from the Sun, he goes round him in 11 Years, 314 Days and 12 Hours; […]”
    “He [= the ship Bismarck] was made to rule the waves across the seven seas […]”
  5. (alt-of, honorific, masculine, pronoun, singular, third-person)Honorific alternative letter-case form of he, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
    “I love the Lord for He is Great and Holy.”

det

  1. Synonym of his.

noun

  1. (uncountable)The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
  2. (countable, uncountable)The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.
  3. (countable, informal, uncountable)A male.
    “Is your cat a he or a she?”
  4. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
    “The same number in the Hebrew mysteries and Cabalistical accounts was the character of Generation; declared by the Letter He, the fifth in their Alphabet.”
    “This Nehama claimed that in his own hand he recognized the consonant “he” of his Hebrew language, and in the letter “vav” his own male soul.”
  5. The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of high explosive.
    “This here is sixty-six tons of straight-up, HE-spewing dee-vine intervention!”
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of higher education.
    “LSST said the allegations were untrue. It described its mission as challenging: "We are providing a valuable service to communities that are often overlooked or are underserved by the public HE sector, and in doing so we are making transformational change."”
  8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of health education.
  9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of His Excellency / Her Excellency.
  10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of His Eminence.
  11. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of home entertainment.
  12. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of human era (“current epoch”).
  13. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Abbreviation of hydroelectricity.
  14. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of home economics.
  15. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of hydrogen embrittlement.

intj

  1. (reduplication, uncommon, usually)An expression of laughter.
    “(more common)”
    “If e'er he went into excess, / 'Twas from a somewhat lively thirst; / But he who would his subjects bless, / Odd's fish!—must wet his whistle first; / And so from every cask they got, / Our king did to himself allot / At least a pot. / Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he! / That's the kind of king for me.”
    “"Well, what is your next tale?" said Sumner, a little brusquely. "He, he! he, he! . . . he, he!" chuckled the bottle, "the text tale I'm going to tell you in a very funny one. It will make you laugh. There's a lady in it—he, he!—a very comic affair."”

name

  1. A surname from Mandarin.
    “The story of Ms. He and her mother began in the early 1960s, shortly before the Cultural Revolution shook China.”
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Hesse: a state of Germany.

adj

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable)Abbreviation of hydroelectric.

phrase

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of how embarrassing.

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Etymology

From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱís (“this”). Cognate with Scots he (“he”), North Frisian he,…

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From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱís (“this”). Cognate with Scots he (“he”), North Frisian he, hi (“he”), Saterland Frisian hie (“he”), West Frisian hy (“he”), Dutch hij, ie (“he”), German Low German he (“he”), Middle High German her (“he”) Central Franconian hä (“he”), Gothic *𐌷𐌹𐍃 (*his, “this”).

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