/ ʃi; NAmE ; strong form ʃiː/ pronoun , noun
■ pronoun
(used as the subject of a verb) a female person or animal that has already been mentioned or is easily identified :
'What does your sister do?' 'She's a dentist.'
Doesn't she (= the woman we are looking at) look like Sue?
—compare her
■ noun
1.
[ sing. ] ( informal ) a female :
What a sweet little dog. Is it a he or a she?
2.
she- (in compound nouns) a female animal :
a she-wolf
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WORD ORIGIN
Middle English : probably a phonetic development of the Old English feminine personal pronoun hēo , hīe .