Definition of 'hir'
English
Pronoun
(neologism) them (singular).
* {{quote-book
| year = 1988
| title = From a Changeling Star
| first = Jeffrey
| last = Carver
| publisher = Bantam Books
| location = New York
| isbn = 0-553-27639-5
| ol = 7824150M
| page = 232
| passage = But once the disorientation had passed, hir' forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish ' hir position, and Ruskin's.
}}
* {{quote-book
| year = 1996
| month = June
| title = Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure
| first = Caitlin
| last = Sullivan
| coauthors =
| publisher = Serpent's Tail
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-1852424183
| id =
| lccn = 95072971
| ol = 820831M
| page = 10
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QV5bAAAAMAAJ
| passage = I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online.
}}
* {{quote-book
| date = 1997-12-18
| title = My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
| first = Kate
| last = Bornstein
| authorlink = Kate Bornstein
| publisher = Routledge
| location = London, New York
| isbn = 978-0415916738
| id =
| lccn = 98134184
| ol = 7495768M
| page = 130
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=NjH32xMTu7kC&pg=PA130
| passage = Words like "freak" became attached to name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir .
}}
* {{quote-book
| date = 2000-08-29
| title = Renaissance
| series = Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur 10
| first = Peter
| last = David
| authorlink = Peter David
| publisher = Simon & Schuster
| isbn = 978-0671042394
| lccn = 2002555412
| ol = 3665551M
| page = 137
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=oSvCkiIzTOEC
| passage = T'Pau leveled a gaze at hir . "You are male and female ... and neither. 'It' is the proper word. We have no use for semantic games on Vulcan."
}}
Synonyms
* (singular) them
* (neologism) em, per
Hyponyms
* him, her
Derived terms
* (neologism) hirself
Adjective
(-)
(neologism) Belonging]] to , their (singular).
* {{quote-book
| year = 1988
| title = From a Changeling Star
| first = Jeffrey
| last = Carver
| publisher = Bantam Books
| location = New York
| isbn = 0-553-27639-5
| ol = 7824150M
| page = 232
| passage = But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.
}}
* {{quote-book
| year = 1996
| month = June
| title = Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure
| first = Caitlin
| last = Sullivan
| coauthors =
| publisher = Serpent's Tail
| location = New York
| isbn = 9781852424183
| id =
| lccn = 95072971
| ol = 820831M
| page = 13
| pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=QV5bAAAAMAAJ
| passage = It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep.
}}
* {{quote-book
| year = 2002
| title = The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality
| first = Frank
| last = Schaap
| location = Amsterdam
| publisher = Aksant Academic Publishers
| page = 32
| isbn = 9055891991
| ol = 17062341M
| passage = The player playing hir' character in a MUD (usually) tries to portray a credible, convincing person within the theme of that world, using the tools that MUD provides, '''hir''' imagination, and ' hir social and communicative skills.
| pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=a72ATDOTez8C&pg=PA32
}}
* {{quote-book
| year = 2003
| title = Slave Trade
| series = Slave Trade Trilogy 1
| first = Susan
| last = Wright
| publisher = Pocket Books
| isbn = 0743466853
| ol = 3283799M
| page = 17
| passage = The garment covered hir' dual genitals, but ' hir slightly rounded breasts and smooth shoulders were revealed.
| pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5vJAfJbkS-MC&pg=PA17
}}
* {{quote-book
| date = 2011-03-29
| first = Jody
| last = Norton
| chapter = Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature
| title = Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature
| editors = Kenneth B. Kidd and Michelle Ann Abate
| publisher = University of Michigan
| page = 305
| isbn = 9780472071463
| id =
| passage = "It's a scientific matter," Ludo announces, explaining hir' very out transgender behavior (an ongoing source of embarrassment to '''hir''' would-be upwardly mobile parents) as the result of ' hir other X chromosome's having accidentally fallen into the trash on its way down from heaven.
| pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=fsWV-TAoJXEC&pg=PA305
}}
* {{quote-book
| date = 2011-05-19
| title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant
| first = Ken
| last = Wickham
| publisher = CreateSpace
| isbn = 9781461136620
| page = 7
| passage = Sie may feel that hir' actual identity of ' hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zWmWZwEACAAJ
}}
Synonyms
* (singular) their
* (neologism) eir
Hyponyms
* his, her
Derived terms
* (neologism) hirs
Usage notes
A declension shared by several gender-neutral pronoun schema. Subjective forms associated with hir include , (sie), (shi), and (ze). For additional considerations regarding use among members of the genderqueer community, see usage notes for (ze).
