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Definition of 'xe'

English

Pronoun

(en-pron)
  • (label) they (singular).
  • * {{quote-web
  • | year = 1992 | first = Jim | last = Sinclair | title = If you could choose... | site = Jim Sinclair's Web Site | url = http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/choice.htm | archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20031103004908/http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/choice.htm | archivedate = 2003-11-03 | passage = Anyone I would be interested in would have to be a pretty special person. I wouldn't want to miss out on knowing such a person just because xe happened to be the "wrong" sex. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • | date = 1993-09-14 | first = Jim | last = Sinclair | title = Re: Jim and Steve's snoring discussion | newsgroup = bit.listserv.autism | id = AUTISM%[email protected] | url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups
  • !msg/bit.listserv.autism/2pyrOMzt_nQ/5J-RU5P3hnIJ
  • | passage = Telepathy would require that you share the other person's knowledge of xyr own mind, which in turn requires recognizing that xe' is actually aware of what ' xe' s thinking, which is incompatible with psychiatry. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • | date = 1999-04-28 | first = Dagmar | last = Alpen | title = Re: Think of a small tribe of people... | newsgroup = talk.politics.libertarian | id = [email protected] | url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups
  • !msg/talk.politics.libertarian/Wxi8N4PwnW0/yRrhhmYAGygJ
  • | passage = Now full ownership in the modern sense... implies four rights of the owner: 1. The right to decide what xe does with xyr property; 2. the right to decide what others do with xyr property; }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • | date = 2000-12-11 | title = Silencing and ad hominem attacks | first = Mary Ellen | last = Curtin | newsgroup = alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated | id = 074d01c06393$c1a2fb00$5be9cfcf@default | url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated/msg/3a23ecdc585ca8b1 | passage = Since xe' went to the trouble of re-posting, I figured it was about something of more than usual importance to hir... I wrote to EmGee privately and '''xe''' said yes, that was one of the things ' xe was talking about. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
  • | date = 2002-03-03 | title = Re: Newbie...not quite sure yet... | first = Ken | last = von Mattell | newsgroup = alt.suicide.holiday | id = [email protected] | url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups
  • !msg/alt.suicide.holiday/azDueNoiilA/JtxS4uc12pkJ
  • | passage = I mean, suppose there's someone who can't leave the house because xe''s all tied up with counting tiles in the bathroom all day, and if ' xe manages to get done with that, there's the stove to check again and again ... you get the idea. }}

    Declension

    * Subject: xe * Object: xem (or hir) * Possessive: xyr or xir (or hir) * Reflexive: xyrself or xirself (perhaps rarely xemself)

    Synonyms

    * (singular) they * (neologism) e, ey, sie, ze, per

    Hyponyms

    * he, she

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns