Meaning

2 senses
  1. (gender neutral, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, reflexive, singular, third person)Zir; the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.

  2. (emphatic, gender neutral, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, singular, third person)Ze; an intensive repetition of the gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.

Origin

From zir + -self.

From zir + -self.

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Word family

2 related words
Relatedxyrself
Derivedzirselves

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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