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Her has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Det · Pron

Definitions
Noun
1

A female person or animal.

Det
1

Belonging to her (belonging to that female, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).

Pron
1

The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.

2

Honorific alternative letter-case form of her, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

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Origin

The word "her" comes from Middle English and Old English, where it meant the same thing. Its roots trace back to Proto-Germanic *hezōi, which was used as a dative and genitive form of the pronoun for "she.

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