him — English Dictionary

Pronoun

1. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object. With dative effect or as an indirect object.

   Usage

   • objective
   • personal
   • pronoun

   Examples

   […]therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.

   ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.

2. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object. Following a preposition.

   Usage

   • objective
   • personal
   • pronoun

   Examples

   She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

3. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object. With accusative effect or as a direct object.

   Usage

   • objective
   • personal
   • pronoun

   Examples

   ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’

4. As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • objective
   • personal
   • pronoun
   • Uncommon

   Examples

   Now him and Bernie are best friends.

   He released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.

5. Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).

   Usage

   • objective
   • personal
   • pronoun

   Examples

   Who was there? —Him.

   Who did this? —Him. He did it. (or:) It was him. He did it.)

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   Who did that? —(It was) not him: I was watching him the whole time.

6. Used reflexively: (to) himself.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • objective
   • personal
   • pronoun

   Examples

   Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.

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   Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; [...] But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.

7. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.

   Usage

   • objective
   • personal
   • pronoun

   Examples

   Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.

   Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.

8. A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.

   Usage

   • objective
   • personal
   • pronoun
   • Slang

   Synonyms

   that guythat nigga

   Examples

   Stop trying that, you're not him bro.

   Bro thinks he's him.

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   They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him.

   Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.

Noun

1. A male person or animal.

   Usage

   • Informal

   Synonyms

   he

   Examples

   I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.

   […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

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   Both hims took a good look at him.

   By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”