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Definition of "hers" []

  • Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to her: If you can't find your hat, take hers. (pronoun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hers" in a sentence
  • "Karff made the title hers by besting seven other players without a single loss."
  • "Out in the flock there was a white sheep which she called hers, since she had brought it up as a lamb when its mother would not own it, as is sometimes the way with sheep -- silly things!"
  • "We also sleep in separate beds: hers is in California, mine is in Texas."