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him1 /hɪm /pronoun [third person singular]1Used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a male person or animal previously mentioned or easily identified: his wife survived him he took the children with him...- Nobody has mentioned him but he's playing well enough to figure and we know he loves it round Augusta.
- George Ryan's work on the death penalty has brought him mention as a contender for the peace prize.
- He was very grateful for the meals that had previously been provided for him.
Compare with he. 1.1Referring to a person or animal of unspecified sex: withdrawing your child from school to educate him at home may seem drastic...- It could even be educational: give it to a child and watch him grow up to be the next John Bonham.
- I don't know who the new Tory leader will be but education will figure highly with him.
1.2Used after the verb ‘to be’ and after ‘than’ or ‘as’: that’s him all right I could never be as good as him...- I'll try to be faster than him, of course, but I don't even know him yet.
- Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw in the march.
1.3West Indian He: him was a tall, bow-legged man 2 archaic or North American dialect Himself: in the depths of him, he too didn’t want to go Usage Why do people tell us that it is wrong to say I could never be as good as him (rather than I could never be as good as he)? If they are right, why does he in this context sound so odd? For a discussion of this issue, see personal pronoun (usage). Origin Old English, dative singular form of he, hē 'he' and hit 'it'. Rhymes bedim, brim, crim, dim, glim, grim, Grimm, gym, hymn, Jim, Kim, limb, limn, nim, prim, scrim, shim, Sim, skim, slim, swim, Tim, trim, vim, whim HIM2abbreviation BritishHer or His Imperial Majesty. |