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From Middle English hires, heres, hers, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her +‎ -s (compare -'s).[1]

hers (plural **hers)

  1. That or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. [from 12th c.]
    That handbag is hers. These gloves are also hers.
    Mine is the blue one, and hers is the red one.
    • 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin, published 1999, page 335:
      The life of La Motte, who had more than saved her's […], depended on the testimony she should give.
    • 2019 August 31, Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian:
      The rest of us, meanwhile, would do well to accept that one woman’s choice is just that; hers and hers alone, not the standard by which all must be judged.
  2. (informal) Her house or home.
    Let's go over to hers.

that which belongs to her

hers

  1. plural of her

  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “hers”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

hers

  1. indefinite genitive singular of her

hers

  1. alternative form of hires (“hers”)

hers

  1. alternative form of heres (“theirs”)

hers

  1. alternative form of ars (“anus; buttocks”)

hers

  1. alternative form of hereth: third-person singular present of heren (“to hear”)
  2. alternative form of heren: plural present of heren (“to hear”)

Borrowed from English hearse.

hers f (plural hersiau or hersys, not mutable)

  1. hearse (vehicle for transporting the dead)
    Synonym: elor-gerbyd

Inherited from Middle Welsh hers, from Middle English hers, a variant of ars.

hers f (not mutable)

  1. bottom, posterior, rump
    Synonyms: pen-ôl, tin, cyfeistedd

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