determiner (the possessive form of they)
1 of or belonging to them:
Their parties are always fun. * Which is their house?
2 used instead of his or her to refer to a person whose sex is not mentioned or not known:
If anyone calls, ask for their number so I can call them back.
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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 their is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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