HIS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of His

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/hɪz/ Listen

pronoun

His pron.

Belonging or pertaining to him; used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete. "No comfortable star did lend his light." "Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth-bound root?" Note: Also formerly used in connection with a noun simply as a sign of the possessive. "The king his son." "By young Telemachus his blooming years." This his is probably a corruption of the old possessive ending -is or -es, which, being written as a separate word, was at length confounded with the pronoun his.

The possessive of he; as, the book is his. "The sea is his, and he made it."

See images of 'His'

Etymology of 'His'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"His" Quotes from Famous Books

... not exactly," stammered Mrs. Stiles. "But, then, I thought they—sort of—distributed things, you know. Don't they? I heerd of a young gentleman who was appointed to be lawyer for a man who cut his wife's throat with a pair of scissors, and the gentleman had never seen ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various

... good at his job, he was a tremendous swell at other things. He was an uncommonly good linguist, and had always about a dozen hobbies which he slaved at; and when he found himself at Deira with a good deal of leisure, he became a ...

— The Moon Endureth--Tales and Fancies • John Buchan

... to the low fire, Mose stirred the coals a little, poured the remains of Duke's "picayune o' molasses" into a tomato-can, and began his ...

— Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales • Ruth McEnery Stuart

... her that the man was still following the trail. Then, just when the real darkness had fallen, she heard a pony whinny in the woods at her left. The man had turned off into the woods! She had almost passed him! She threw herself out upon Brom Bones' neck and caught him by the nose. He threw up his head indignantly and tried to bolt, but she blessed him for making no noise. She drove on quietly a couple of hundred yards, slipped down, and drew Brom Bones into the bushes away from the road and tied him. She talked to him, patting his head and neck, pleading with him to be ...

— The Shepherd of the North • Richard Aumerle Maher

... laughter that greeted the conclusion of Grinder's story it was seen that Mr Bosher had become black in the face. He was waving his arms and writhing about like one in a fit, his goggle eyes bursting from their sockets, whilst his huge stomach quivering spasmodically, alternately contracted and expanded as if ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

More quotes...