here
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪə̯/
ipa: /hɪː/
ipa: /ˈhiː.ə/
ipa: /hɪɚ̯/
ipa: /hɪɹ/
ipa: [çiɚ]
ipa: /hɪː/
note: Western Australia, Queensland
ipa: /ˈhiː.ə/
note: Western Australia, Queensland
ipa: /hɪə/
ipa: /hiːr/
ipa: /hiːɹ/
ipa: /hjɜː/
ipa: /hiə/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /hɛː/
homophone: hear
homophone: hir
homophone: hair
homophone: hare (both cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English her, from Old English hēr (“at this place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, from *hiz + *-r, from Proto-Indo-European *kís, from *ḱe + *ís.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian hier, West Frisian hjir, Dutch hier, German Low German hier, German hier, Danish her, Swedish här, Norwegian her, Faroese her, Icelandic hér. Also related to the English pronoun he (“this/that person”), and the words hither (“to this place”) and hence (“from this place”).
Senses: examples: text: You wait here while I fetch my coat.
text: Ms. Doe is not here at the moment.
text: It says here that he died in 1970.
text: The air here is foul.
text: The view up here is better than the view down there!
raw_tags: inverted use
text: Here is the report that you asked for.
text: Here I stand.
text: Kilroy was here.
text: Dark house, by which once more I stand / Here in the long unlovely street,
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto VII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: The Canadian visitor stated, “I’m not here to help you. I’m not here to do anything for you. I’m just here to get information.”
ref: 2008, Omar Khadr, Affidavit of Omar Ahmed Khadr:
text: Oh, yes. I am here! — Good. You are there.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
topics: location
synonyms: word: right here
glosses: In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
examples: text: I've had enough of peeling potatoes. I'm stopping here.
text: Here endeth the lesson.
text: Here, perhaps I ought to stop.
ref: 1796, George Washington, Washington's Farewell Address:
text: “And drove away—away.” Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
topics: location
synonyms: word: right here
glosses: In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
At this point or stage (in a process, argument, narration, etc.)
examples: text: You say that all men are born equal, but here I must disagree with you.
topics: location
synonyms: word: right here
glosses: In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
In this matter.
examples: text: Flu season is here.
text: Christmas will soon be here.
topics: location
synonyms: word: right here
glosses: In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
Notionally at the speaker's location by virtue of happening now.
raw_tags: as complement of 'be'
examples: text: Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.
text: The two great generalizations which the veteran Belgian astronomer has brought to bear on physiological and mental science, and which it is proposed to describe popularly here, may be briefly defined:
ref: 1872 May, Edward Burnett Tylor, “Quetelet on the Science of Man”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 1:
text: The briefest characterization is all that will be attempted here.
ref: 1904 January 15, William James, “The Chicago School”, in Psychological Bulletin, 1.1, pages 1-5:
topics: location
synonyms: word: right here
glosses: In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
In this context.
examples: text: Jim here has been with the company for twenty years.
topics: location
synonyms: word: right here
glosses: In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
After the name of a person perceived as located close to the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.
examples: text: This here orange is too sour.
text: Both 'ere buckets 'ave 'oles in 'em.
topics: location
synonyms: word: right here
glosses: In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
After certain determiners, especially 'this' and 'these', used to emphasise demonstrative sense; see also this here.
examples: text: Please come here.
text: He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get.
ref: 1891, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper:
topics: location
glosses: To this place; used in place of the literary or archaic hither.
Derived terms: abandon hope, all ye who enter here
all hope abandon ye who enter here
be here for
come-here
come here to me
does anyone here speak English
do you come here often
fancy seeing you here
for here
here on in
here on out
here to Sunday
get out of here
get outta here
have had it up to here
have here
hereabout
hereabove
hereafter
hereagainst
hereamong
here and now
here and there
hereat
hereaway
here be dragons
here below
hereby
here document
herefor
herefore
here for it
herefrom
heregeld
here goes
here goes nothing
herehence
herein
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereish
here lies
hereness
hereof
hereon
hereout
here-script
here-text
here, there and everywhere
hereto
heretofore
heretog
here to stay
hereunder
hereunto
hereupon
here we are
here we go
here we go again
herewith
herewithin
here you are
here you go
I just work here
I'm here all week
in the here and now
I only work here
is anyone here a doctor
is anyone sitting here
is it safe here
Kilroy was here
look here
my eyes are up here
neither here nor there
not here for a haircut
not here to fuck spiders
nothing to see here
not invented here
over here
same here
somebody's in here
the buck stops here
this here
true as I'm standing here
true as I stand here
up here
up to here
you must be new here
your money is no good here