it
/ɪt/ · noun
Meaning
- One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
- The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
- The game of tag.
- Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond beauty.
- Sexual activity.
- A biological force that inhabits living beings, according to the vitalist approach of Georg Groddeck.
- Most fashionable.
- The third-person singular personal pronoun that is normally used to refer to an inanimate object or abstract entity, also often used to refer to animals.
- A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child, especially of unknown gender.
- Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
- The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
- The impersonal pronoun, used without referent in various short idioms.
- The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a .
- A large peninsula in Southern Europe protruding into the Mediterranean Sea and shaped like a boot. The mountain range of Apennines runs across it from north to south. Occupied almost entirely by Italy.
- A country in southern Europe. Official name: Italian Republic.
- Abbreviation of Italian. (language)
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