Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • pronoun Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to her.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See he.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • pronoun See the Note under her, pron.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • pronoun That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English hires, hirs : hire, her; see her + -es, possessive suff.; see –'s.]

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her +‎ -'s

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