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   she

   /ʃiː/

   pronoun

   • 1. used to refer to a woman, girl, or female animal previously mentioned or easily identified: "my sister told me that she was not happy"
   • ▪ used to refer to a ship, vehicle, country, or other inanimate thing regarded as female: "I was aboard the St Roch shortly before she sailed for the Northwest Passage"
   • ▪ used to refer to a person or animal of unspecified sex: "only include your child if you know she won't distract you"
   • ▪ any female person: "she who rocks the cradle rules the world"
   • ▪ her or hers: "give she lavender oil"
   • ▪ it (used to refer to something not usually regarded as female): "reckon some decent weather and she'll be right"

   noun

   • 1. a female; a woman: "is that a he or a she?"
   • ▪ female: "a she-bear"

   Word Origin Middle English: probably a phonetic development of the Old English feminine personal pronoun hēo, hīe.

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • S

     1

   • H

     4

   • E

     1

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