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CIDE DICTIONARY
here, pron. pl. [OE. here, hire, AS. heora, hyra, gen. pl. of h. See He.].
Of them; their. Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
"On here bare knees adown they fall." [1913 Webster]
here, n.
Hair. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
here, adv. [OE. her, AS. h; akin to OS. h, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. h, Dan. her, Sw. här; fr. root of E. he. See He.].
- In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to
there . [1913 Webster]"He is not here, for he is risen." [1913 Webster] - In the present life or state. [1913 Webster]"Happy here, and more happy hereafter." [1913 Webster]
- To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither. [1913 Webster]"Here comes Virgil." [1913 Webster]"Thou led'st me here." [1913 Webster]
- At this point of time, or of an argument; now. [1913 Webster]" Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in drinking healths. “Here's [a health] to thee, Dick.”" Cowley. [1913 Webster]"The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
here, adv., n., & int.
--adv.
1 in or at or to this place or position (put it here; has lived here for many years; comes here every day).
2 indicating a person's presence or a thing offered (here is your coat; my son here will show you).
3 at this point in the argument, situation, etc. (here I have a question).
--n. this place (get out of here; lives near here; fill it up to here).
--int.
1 calling attention: short for come here, look here, etc. (here, where are you going with that?).
2 indicating one's presence in a roll-call: short for I am here.
--adv.
1 in or at or to this place or position (put it here; has lived here for many years; comes here every day).
2 indicating a person's presence or a thing offered (here is your coat; my son here will show you).
3 at this point in the argument, situation, etc. (here I have a question).
--n. this place (get out of here; lives near here; fill it up to here).
--int.
1 calling attention: short for come here, look here, etc. (here, where are you going with that?).
2 indicating one's presence in a roll-call: short for I am here.
Idiom
here and now at this very moment; immediately. here and there in various places. here goes! colloq. an expression indicating the start of a bold act. here's to I drink to the health of. here we are colloq. said on arrival at one's destination. here we go again colloq. the same, usu. undesirable, events are recurring. here you are said on handing something to somebody. neither here nor there of no importance or relevance.
Etymology
OE her f. Gmc: cf. HE
THESAURUS
here
aboard, among us, as of now, as things are, at present, at this juncture, at this moment, at this point, at this time, but now, even now, for the nonce, for this occasion, here and now, hereabout, hereabouts, hereat, hereinto, hereto, hereunto, hic et nunc, hither, hitherto, hitherward, hitherwards, in our time, in these days, in this place, in this vicinity, just here, just now, now, nowadays, on board, on the spot, somewhere about, there, this day, this night, to this place, today, tonight, with usROGET THESAURUS
here
Situation
N situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude, footing, standing, standpoint, post, stage, aspect, attitude, posture, pose, environment, surroundings (location), circumjacence, place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts, ground, bearings, spot, topography, geography, chorography, map, situate, situated, local, topical, topographical, in situ, in loco, here and there, passim, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts, in place, here, there, in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage.Presence
N presence, occupancy, occupation, attendance, whereness, permeation, pervasion, diffusion, ubiety, ubiquity, ubiquitariness, omnipresence, bystander, present, occupying, inhabiting, moored, resiant, resident, residentiary, domiciled, ubiquitous, ubiquitary, omnipresent, universally present, peopled, populous, full of people, inhabited, here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home, afield, here there and everywhere, in presence of, before, under the eyes of, under the nose of, in the face of, in propria persona, on the spot, in person, in the flesh, nusquam est qui ubique est.Arrival
N arrival, advent, landing, debarkation, disembarkation, reception, welcome, vin d'honneur, home, goal, goalpost, landing place, landing stage, bunder, resting place, destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport, terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal, journey's end, anchorage, return, remigration, meeting, rencounter, encounter, completion, recursion, arriving, homeward bound, here, hither, Int, welcome!, hail!, all Hail!, good-day, good morrow!, any port in a storm.Also see definition of "here" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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