himhim /ɪm; strong hɪm/ ●●● S1 W1 pronoun [object form of ‘he’] 
Are you in love with him? Why don’t you ask him yourself? He repeated what she had told him. I knew it was him as soon as I heard his voice.2used when talking about someone who may be male or female. Some people think this use is old-fashioned: If you can convince a child you love him, you can teach him anything.
WORD ORIGINhim
Origin:
Old EnglishEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I took him to lunch yesterday.
- She's in love with him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Josie’s already turned him down (=refused his offer of marriage).
(=someone suddenly loses the courage or confidence to do something)· At the last moment, her nerve failed her.
Josie’s already turned him down (=refused his offer of marriage).PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► I don’t blame you/you can hardly blame him etc► more fool you/him etc► God help you/him etc► God help you/him etc► hark at him/her/you!► God help him/them etc► somebody doesn’t have much meat on him/her► don’t mind her/him etc► rather you/him/her/them than me► that’s rich (coming from him/you etc)► I’ll show him/them etc► you can tell him/her etc from me► trust you/him/them etc (to do something)!
1used to refer to a man, boy, or male animal that has already been mentioned or is already known about: - Hence, the blessing of bread on her feast day.
- I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, I will curse.
- Orphism, as the other Hellenistic mystery religions, claimed to teach its adepts the means of securing a blessed immortality.
- Riggs said Clinton administration representatives agreed to the further funding restriction in return for congressional leaders' blessing of the spending bill.
- So much undervalued this fish and yet St Peter himself has blessed it with his thumb-mark.
- Such a prestigious credit was something of a mixed blessing.
- Suddenly the door bell rang and she blessed that she'd blissed the afternoon away.
- They love every minute of it, too, bless their hearts particularly the scandals.
- A: Then bully for you and bully for them, though I suspect you're lying.
- She ran to her mother as fast as her legs could carry her.
- As I couldn't work out where they were coming from I ignored them.
- But all the intensity is coming from her.
- But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me.
- Coast Guard helicopters flying over the barge noticed an oil sheen coming from it, DeVillars said.
- Maybe these intimate stories, coming from some one she hardly knew, had overwhelmed her.
- That coming from him who would go sick with a bad back whenever a job tired him.
- That was rich coming from him!
- The little girl coming from her direction offers the other, much thinner one, a bowl filled with bread and fruit.
- And if Callie confuses them, Mona confounds them.
- Hell and the devil confound it, this was his home!
- Placed there to confront and confound him.
- She summons Deronda and pours out her desire to be what he wants, her inarticulate misery confounding him.
- Use their expectations and then confound them.
- All I say is: good luck to him.
- And all good luck to him.
- Big women can be as fit as anyone else and if so, good luck to them.
- If they start talking high teens, good luck to them.
- In which case, good luck to them both.
- He would not rush the boy, he had to let him come to him.
- I also owed Maggie the courtesy of letting her know I didn't need her to do my legwork any longer.
- I had once made the mistake of letting him do this.
- I stood there, thinking to myself, Okay just let him wear himself out.
- Of course, Kate could have shrugged and let him stew in his own juice, or lack of it.
- Then let her do it for the Junior League.
- But I 'd like to see you again, when we can make time.
- I 'd like to see him again.
- I 'd like to see you give our boys a run for their money.
- They screwed him at least once and he knows it.
- And if you haven't heard of Gus then shame on you!
- Fool me once, shame on you, the saying goes.
- If you fail to negotiate, shame on you.
Are you in love with him? Why don’t you ask him yourself? He repeated what she had told him. I knew it was him as soon as I heard his voice.2used when talking about someone who may be male or female. Some people think this use is old-fashioned: If you can convince a child you love him, you can teach him anything.