him
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
him/hɪm/
▶pronoun [third person sing.]
- 1 used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a male person or animal previously mentioned.
- 2 referring to a person or animal of unspecified sex (now largely replaced by ‘him or her’ or ‘they’).
- 3 archaic or N. Amer. dialect himself.
– origin OE, dative sing. form of he, hē ‘he’ and hit ‘it’.
usage: Why is it often stated that you should say I could never be as good as he rather than I could never be as good as him? For a discussion of this issue, see usage at than.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
HIM
▶abbreviation Brit. Her or His Imperial Majesty.
'him' also found in these Oxford entries:
Achilles heel
- active
- although
- apophatic
- ashamed
- because
- behalf
- best man
- between
- blue flag
- bound
- bring
- bully
- Cassandra
- collective noun
- defy
- devil
- distraction
- doing
- drop
- eat
- escape
- exeat
- exequatur
- fat
- fit
- frame
- Frankenstein
- grand seigneur
- grudge
- hand
- hang
- helpmate
- hesitation
- HIM
- himself
- hobbit
- hold
- Homeric
- hyacinth
- indirect object
- jorum
- loath
- Marcan
- master
- meaning
- only
- pedestal
- personal pronoun
