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Definition of "here" []

  • At or in this place: Stop here for a rest. (adverb)
  • At this time; now: We'll adjourn the meeting here and discuss remaining issues after lunch. (adverb)
  • At or on this point, detail, or item: Here I must disagree. (adverb)
  • In the present life or condition. (adverb)
  • To this place; hither: Come here, please. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "here" in a sentence
  • "_theeäzam here, theeäzamy here_, and _thizzam here_ for these, or these here; and sometimes without the pleonastic and unnecessary _here_."
  • "And we knew there was a market here that was famous..here is a water color."
  • "“Something moves, not because at one moment it is here and another there, but because at one and the same moment it is here and not here, because in this ˜here™, it at once is and is not” (1831, p. 440)."