she

Plural: shes

Pron

The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
A ship or boat.
A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
A thing, especially a machine or other object, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).

Noun

A female person or animal.
A female.

Verb

To refer to (someone) using she/her pronouns.

Det

Synonym of her.

Examples

After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.
I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.
Pat is definitely a she.
She could do forty knots in good weather.
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
She seems a clever girl, your Isabel.
SHE was the Scrabble champion, known for her strategic prowess and vast vocabulary.

Origin / Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sche, scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo (“she”), Scots she, sho (“she”).
Probably from Old English hēo (whence dialectal English hoo), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō /hjoː/, then a development from /hj-/ to /ç/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of Shetland from Old Norse Hjaltland. In this case, she is from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”), and is cognate with Saterland Frisian jo, ju, West Frisian hja, North Frisian jü, Danish hun, Swedish hon; more at he.
A derivation from Old English sēo (“the or that", occasionally "she”) is also possible, though less likely. In that case, sēo would have undergone a change in stress from sēo to seō /sjoː/, then a change from /sj-/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of sure from Old French seur. It would then be cognate to Dutch zij and German sie.
Neither etymology would be expected to yield the modern vocalism in /iː/ (the expected form would be shoo, which is in fact found dialectally). It may be due to influence from he, but both hēo and sēo also have rare variants (hīe and sīe) that may give modern English /iː/.

Synonyms

her

Scrabble Score: 6

she: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
she: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
she: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

she: valid Words With Friends Word