she

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
she/ʃi/

▶pronoun [third person sing.]

• 1 used to refer to a woman, girl, or female animal previously mentioned or easily identified.

• 2 used to refer to a ship, country, or other inanimate thing regarded as female.

• 3 any female person (in modern use, now largely replaced by ‘anyone’ or ‘the person’).

• 4 Austral./NZ informal it; the state of affairs.

▶noun a female; a woman.

– origin ME: prob. a phonetic development of the OE fem. personal pronoun hēo, hīe.

usage: For a discussion of I am older than she versus I am older than her, see usage at than.