I. |hərz, |hə̄z pronoun
( singular or plural in construction )
Etymology: Middle English hires, hirs, from hire her + -s -'s — more at her
1. : her one or her ones — used without a following noun as a pronoun equivalent in meaning to the adjective her
what a stricken look was hers — S.T.Coleridge
the eternal years of God are hers — W.C.Bryant
— often used after of to single out one or more members of a class belonging to or connected with a particular female person or animal
a favorite dessert of hers
some friends of hers
or merely to identify something or someone as belonging to or connected with a particular female person or animal without any implication of membership in a more extensive class
that face of hers — Shakespeare
those charming manners of hers
2. : something that belongs to her : what belongs to her
all that is his is hers
II.
plural of her
III. adjective
obsolete : her II 1 — used as the first of two possessive adjectives modifying the same noun
hers and mine adultery — Shakespeare