[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.
[1913 Webster]
On here bare knees adown they fall. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Here \Here\, n.
Hair. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Here \Here\ (h[~e]r), pron.
1. See Her, their. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
2. Her; hers. See Her. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
He is not here, for he is risen. --Matt.
xxviii. 6.
[1913 Webster]
2. In the present life or state.
[1913 Webster]
Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither.
[1913 Webster]
Here comes Virgil. --B. Jonson.
[1913 Webster]
Thou led'st me here. --Byron.
[1913 Webster]
4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now.
[1913 Webster]
The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise.
--Warren.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
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]