Usually means: Pronoun used for plural subjects.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word they:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. they: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. they: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. they: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. they: Collins English Dictionary
  5. they: Vocabulary.com
  6. THey, They, They, They, They, they, they, they, they, they, they, they: Wordnik
  7. they: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. they: Wiktionary
  9. they: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. they: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. they: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. they: Dictionary.com
  13. they: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. they: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. THEY, They (Heinlein), They (album), They (disambiguation), They (poem), They (pronoun), They (song), They: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. They: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. they: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. they: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. they: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. They: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. they: Free Dictionary
  22. they: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. they: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. They: Wordnik

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. they: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wikipedia (
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noun:  In Modern English, they is a third-person pronoun relating to a grammatical subject.
noun:  a 1917 poem by the English soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon published in The Old Huntsman and Other Poems.
noun:  "They" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein.
noun:  (also known as Wes Craven Presents: They) a 2002 American supernatural horror film, directed by Robert Harmon and starring Laura Regan, Ethan Embry, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jay Brazeau, and Marc Blucas.
noun:  the second studio album by King Missile (Dog Fly Religion), released in 1988 by Shimmy Disc.
noun:  "They" is the first single released by Welsh singer Jem from her debut album, Finally Woken.
noun:  (also known as They Watch or Children of the Mist) a 1993 television film about the supernatural.
noun:  a third-person, personal pronoun
noun:  (stylised THEY.) an American R&B duo from Los Angeles, California, consisting of Dante Jones and Andrew "Drew Love" Neely.
noun:  a 2017 American drama film directed by and starring Rhys Fehrenbacher.


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