He meaning

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(personal) Refers to a male person or animal already known or implied.
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The fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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A male person or animal. Sometimes used in combination.

Is the cat a he? We saw a he-goat cross the road.

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Used to refer to the male person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
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High explosive.
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His Eminence.
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The man, boy, or male animal (or, sometimes, the thing regarded as male) previously mentioned: masculine personal pronoun in the third person singular: he is the nominative form, him the objective, his the possessive, and himself the reflexive and intensive; his is the possessive pronominal adjective.
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A man, boy, or male animal.
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The fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet (ה)
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Hebrews.
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Helium.
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Her (or His) Excellency.
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High explosive.
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His Eminence.
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Male.

He-dog.

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(personal) Refers to a person whose gender is unknown.
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(personal) Refers to an animal whose gender is unknown.
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The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
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(informal) A male person.

Alex totally is a he.

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The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
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Her (or His) Excellency.
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The person; the one; anyone.

He who laughs last laughs best.

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The person just mentioned.
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Origin of he

  • Middle English from Old English hē ko- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Hebrew hē of Phoenician origin
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle English he, from Old English hē (“he”), from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Scots he (“he”), North Frisian hi (“he”), Saterland Frisian hie (“he”), West Frisian hy (“he”), Dutch hij (“he”), German Low German he (“he”), Danish han (“he”). Related to here.
    From Wiktionary
  • Transliteration of various Semitic letters, such as Phoenician (h), Hebrew ה (h) and Syriac ܗ (h, “hē”).
    From Wiktionary

He Sentence Examples

  • He will save Europe!

  • But he paid no attention to her warning.

  • "How long will it take you to stop my breath?" he asked.

  • His shoes were covered with mud; he had torn his coat on the thorny tree.

  • He was, in fact, making this soup, his favorite dish.

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