her
Plural: hers
Det
- Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
- 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, or (dialect) as a subject without a conjunction.
Noun
- A female person or animal.
Pronoun
- The objective or possessive case of the pronoun 'she'.
Examples
- I told her that playing HER as a hook could open up the board.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 6
her: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordher: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
her: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 5
her: valid Words With Friends Word