English Online Dictionary. What means herself? What does herself mean?
English
Alternative forms
- Herself (honorific)
Etymology
From Middle English. Equivalent to her + -self.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɜːˈsɛlf/, /əsɛlf/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɝˈsɛlf/, /ɚsɛlf/
- Hyphenation: her‧self
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun
herself (the third person singular, feminine, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of she, masculine himself, neuter itself, gender-neutral singular themself or themselves, plural themselves)
- (reflexive) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
- (emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.
- (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
Derived terms
- every woman for herself
Translations
See also
Anagrams
- Flesher, flesher