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his.

Belonging to him.

3 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

det/ɪz/ [ɪ̈z]/əz//hɪz/Australia, Canada, UK, US/ˈhɘz/New-Zealand

  1. Belonging to him.

  2. Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.

    dated · sometimes

  3. Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)

    obsolete

  4. Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.

    archaic
    Ahab his mark
    Sejanus his Fall
Where this word comes from

From Middle English hes, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its.

pron/ɪz/ [ɪ̈z]/əz//hɪz/Australia, Canada, UK, US/ˈhɘz/New-Zealand

  1. That or those belonging to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.

    This pen is his. These books are also his.
    The decision was his to live with.

  2. His house or home.

    informal
    After our night out, I went back to his.

  3. Alternative spelling of His.

    alt-of · alternative
Where this word comes from

From Middle English hes, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its.

noun

  1. plural of hi

    form-of · plural
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