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here

(hîr)

adv.

1. At or in this place: Stop here for a rest.

2. At this time; now: We'll adjourn the meeting here and discuss remaining issues after lunch.

3. At or on this point, detail, or item: Here I must disagree.

4. In the present life or condition.

5. To this place; hither: Come here, please.

adj.

1. Used especially for emphasis after the demonstrative pronoun this or these, or after a noun modified by the demonstrative adjective this or these: This tire here is flat.

2. Nonstandard Used for emphasis between the demonstrative adjective this or these and a noun: This here tire is flat.

interj.

Used to respond to a roll call, attract attention, command an animal, or rebuke, admonish, or concur.

1. This place: "It would be difficult from here, with the certainty of armed gunmen inside, to bring him out alive" (Howard Kaplan).

2. The present time or state: We are living in the here and can only speculate about the hereafter.

Idioms:

be out of here Slang

To leave; depart.

neither here nor there

Unimportant and irrelevant.

[Middle English, from Old English hēr; see ko- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

He·re

(hîrē)

Variant of Hera.

Indo-European & Semitic Roots Appendices

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