English Online Dictionary. What means himself? What does himself mean?
English
Alternative forms
- Himself (honorific)
- himselfe (obsolete)
- himselve (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English hymself, from Old English him selfum. Equivalent to him + -self.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɪmˈsɛlf/, /ɪ̈msɛlf/
- Hyphenation: him‧self
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun
himself (the third person singular, masculine, personal pronoun, reflexive form of he, feminine herself, neuter itself, plural themselves, gender-neutral singular himself or themselves or themself)
- (reflexive pronoun) Him; the male object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- (emphatic) He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate
- (Ireland, otherwise archaic) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he himself.
- Sir John Denham (1614-1669)
- With shame remembers, while himself was one / Of the same herd, himself the same had done.
- (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; he (used of upper-class gentlemen, or sarcastically, of men who imagine themselves to be more important than others)
Synonyms
- hisself
- hissen
Derived terms
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See also
Further reading
- “himself”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “himself”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
- Flemish, flemish, mehfils