pronoun, noun
pronoun (used as the subject of a verb)
1 a male person or animal that has already been mentioned or is easily identified:
Everyone liked my father-he was the perfect gentleman. * He (= the man we are watching) went through that door.
2 (becoming old-fashioned) a person, male or female, whose sex is not stated or known, especially when referring to sb mentioned earlier or to a group in general:
Every child needs to know that he is loved. * (saying) He who (= anyone who) hesitates is lost.
compareHIM
Part of speech: noun
1 [sing.] (informal) a male:
What a nice dog-is it a he or a she?
2 (he-) (in compound nouns) a male animal:
a he-goat
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for he is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is he a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, he is tagged as noun.
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