pronoun (the object form of they)
1 used when referring to people, animals or things as the object of a verb or preposition:
Tell them the news. * What are you doing with those matches? Give them to me. * Did you eat all of them?
2 used instead of him or her to refer to a person whose sex is not mentioned or not known:
If anyone comes in before I get back, ask them to wait.
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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 them is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does them appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — them appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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