[syn: here, hither]
4. at this time; now;
- Example: "we'll adjourn here for lunch and discuss the remaining issues this afternoon"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Her \Her\, Here \Here\, pron. pl. [OE. here, hire, AS. heora,
hyra, gen. pl. of h[=e]. See He.]
Of them; their. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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On here bare knees adown they fall. --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Here \Here\, n.
Hair. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Here \Here\ (h[~e]r), pron.
1. See Her, their. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. Her; hers. See Her. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Here \Here\ (h[=e]r), adv. [OE. her, AS. h[=e]r; akin to OS.
h[=e]r, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. h[=e]r,
Dan. her, Sw. h[aum]r; fr. root of E. he. See He.]
1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; --
opposed to there.
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He is not here, for he is risen. --Matt.
xxviii. 6.
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2. In the present life or state.
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Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.
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3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither.
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Here comes Virgil. --B. Jonson.
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Thou led'st me here. --Byron.
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4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now.
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The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise.
--Warren.
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Note: 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.
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Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed
manner; irregularly. "Footsteps here and there."
--Longfellow.
It is neither, here nor there, it is neither in this place
nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence,
it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense. --Shak.
Herea-bout
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
here
adv 1: in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is; "I
work here"; "turn here"; "radio waves received here on
Earth" [ant: at that place, in that location,
there]
2: in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail;
"what do we have here?"; "here I must disagree"
3: to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here,
please" [syn: here, hither] [ant: there, thither]
4: at this time; now; "we'll adjourn here for lunch and discuss
the remaining issues this afternoon"
adj 1: being here now; "is everyone here?"
n 1: the present location; this place; "where do we go from
here?" [ant: there]
2: queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology; sister
and wife of Zeus remembered for her jealously of the many
mortal women Zeus fell in love with; identified with Roman
Juno [syn: Hera, Here]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 us