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Definitions

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

  • pronoun Used as the direct object of a verb.
  • pronoun Used as the indirect object of a verb.
  • pronoun Used as the object of a preposition.
  • pronoun Informal Used as a predicate nominative.
  • pronoun Nonstandard Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb.
  • noun A male.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See he.

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

  • pronoun obsolete Them. See hem.
  • pronoun The objective case of he. See he.

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

  • pronoun A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.

Etymologies

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

[Middle English, from Old English, dative sing. of hē, he; see ko- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old English him dative singular of he (masculine) or it (neuter); from Proto-Germanic *himmai (compare Dutch hem).

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Examples

  • She stood on the sidewalk and looked at him through the window, not smiling, not frowning, more like _studying _him, for what seemed like the longest moment of his life.

    The Body Ricardo 2010

  • The collective culture of Capitalism created Madoff, celebrated people like him in pop-culture, - created millions * just like him* and/or aspired to BE him and now the MSM is running out of bad-apples to distract us with so that Americans don't see the slimy, rotted trunk of the Free Market tree that's falling in the yard.

    Dan Solin: The Scam That Outscams "The Scam" 2009

  • If I were her I would broke up with him and tell the police on him~

    Is Chris Brown Using Rihanna’s Knackered Face To Escape Jail? 2009

  • Diary Entry by Alan MacDonald (about the author) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Let\'s use the Health Care bill as an Obama "teaching moment"'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Let\'s use the Health Care bill as an Obama \'teaching moment\' --- not him \'teaching us\ 'but us \'teaching him\'! '

    OpEdNews - Diary: Let's use the Health Care bill as an Obama "teaching moment" 2009

  • Brad Linaweaver…a very interesting writer and person..him I would love to catch him at an airport with an hour or so to spare….

    Galacticaa.net » Battlestar Galactica panels at Comic-Con 2006

  • She stood on the sidewalk and looked at him through the window, not smiling, not frowning, more like _studying _him, for what seemed like the longest moment of his life.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • He gave me his number im scared to ring him though… even though he was so fucken great in bed… fuck… its his home number so im even more scared to ring him…

    anasthesia Diary Entry anasthesia 2004

  • The evidence against him was very simple: the victim vividly remembered _him_ as her attacker and could easily have picked him out of a lineup.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • She wanted to see him, touch him… belong to him again the way she had last night.

    In His Own Defense Cave, Ellora's 2003

  • So I do my usually scolding and yell at him for not going to the doctors, and I tell him that when he gets off work I was going to take him…

    goldylockz22 Diary Entry goldylockz22 2003

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