Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb At or in this place.
- adverb At this time; now.
- adverb At or on this point, detail, or item.
- adverb In the present life or condition.
- adverb To this place; hither.
- adjective Used especially for emphasis after the demonstrative pronoun this or these, or after a noun modified by the demonstrative adjective this or these:
- adjective Nonstandard Used for emphasis between the demonstrative adjective this or these and a noun.
- interjection Used to respond to a roll call, attract attention, command an animal, or rebuke, admonish, or concur.
- noun This place.
- noun The present time or state.
- idiom (be out of here) To leave; depart.
- idiom (neither here nor there) Unimportant and irrelevant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An army; a host; a hostile host.
- noun Specifically In Anglo-Saxon history, an invading army, either that of the enemy, as the Danish invaders, or the national troops serving abroad. See
fyrd . - noun An individual enemy.
- See
he - In the place or region where the person speaking is; on this spot or in this locality.
- At the point of space or of progress just mentioned or attained; at or in the place or situation now spoken of: as, here we tarried a month; here the speaker paused.
- At the place or in the situation pointed out, or assumed to be shown or indicated: as, here (in a picture) we see a cottage, and here a tree.
- At the nearer point, or at the one first indicated: opposed to there.
- To this place; to the situation or locality where the speaker is.
- In the present life or state; on earth.
- A phrase used in calling attention to a toast or wish: as, here′ s a health to you; here′ s luck to you.
- noun That which is here; the present; this world.
- A Middle English form of
hear . - noun A Middle English form of
hair . - noun A Middle English form of
hare . - noun See
Hera .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- pronoun obsolete See
her , their. - pronoun obsolete Her; hers. See
Her . - adverb In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to
there . - adverb In the present life or state.
- adverb To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See
Thither . - adverb At this point of time, or of an argument; now.
- adverb in one place and another; in a dispersed manner; irregularly.
- adverb it is neither in this place nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence, it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense.
- noun obsolete Hair.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
army ,host - noun A
hostile force - noun Anglo-Saxon An invading army, either that of the
enemy , or the national troops serving abroad. Comparefyrd . - noun An
enemy , individualenemy - noun abstract This
place ; thislocation . - noun abstract This
time , thepresent situation . - adverb location In, on, or at this
place . - adverb location To this
place ; used in place of the more datedhither . - adverb abstract In this
context . - adverb At this point in the argument or narration.
- adjective filler after a noun or
demonstrative pronoun , solely for emphasis - adjective filler after a
demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis - interjection UK, slang used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_theeäzam here, theeäzamy here_, and _thizzam here_ for these, or these here; and sometimes without the pleonastic and unnecessary _here_.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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And we knew there was a market here that was famous..here is a water color.
Despite Cold Weather, Paris Christmas Flea Market is Big Attraction 2010
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An alternative, dialetheic account of motion, which takes at face value the aforementioned Hegelian idea that “Something moves, not because at one moment it is here and another there, but because at one and the same moment it is here and not here, because in this ˜here™, it at once is and is not”, is exposed in Priest, 1987, Ch. 12.
Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008
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“Something moves, not because at one moment it is here and another there, but because at one and the same moment it is here and not here, because in this ˜here™, it at once is and is not” (1831, p. 440).
Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008
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You have one here, you have one back here Oh, I didnt even know about that, yeah.
Alive In Truth 2005
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We might long to go here, "she brought her fist up to her breast, and then raised it to her head --" but there was that _here_ which kept us to the camp and their will.
The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958
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The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget what _they did here_.
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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A man and a woman HAVE been here (not _has been here_).
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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And now only one of those two years is gone; and -- I am here, _here_, alive only through charity!
The Genius Margaret Horton Potter
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It is for us, the living, _rather_, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which _they who fought here_ have thus far so nobly advanced.
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word here
hey zero, how come you change your comments all the time? Are they quotes?
January 26, 2007
uselessness commented on the word here
In bizzaro world, the wee fish leaves YOU!
January 26, 2007
zero commented on the word here
away from you, i hold hands with the air,
your imagined, untouchable hand. not there,
your fingers braid with mine as i walk.
far away in my heart you start to talk.
i squeeze the air, kicking the auburn leaves,
everything suddenly gold. i half believe
your hand is holding mine. the way it would
if you were here. what do you say
in my heart? i bend my head to listen, then feel
your hand reach out and stroke my hair, as real
as the wind caressing the fretful trees above.
now i can hear you clearly, speaking of love.
- c.a.d
January 26, 2007
gulyasrobi commented on the word here
"here" in Hungarian means: testicle / drone (male bee)
August 7, 2012