here

See also: Here, hère, and herë

here - English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /hɪə̯(ɹ)/, /hɪː(ɹ)/
  • (General American) IPA: /hɪɚ̯/, /hɪɹ/
  • (General Australian) IPA: /hɪː/, /hɪə̯/
  • (Scotland) IPA: /hiːɹ/
  • (Wales) IPA: /hjɜː/
  • (Maine) IPA: /ˈhi.ə/
  • Homophones: hear, hir

Adverb

here (not comparable)

  1. (location) In, on, or at this place.
    • Synonym: (emphatic) right here
    • You wait here while I fetch my coat.
    • Here I stand.
    • Flu season is here.
    • Kilroy was here.
    • Ms. Doe is not here at the moment.
  2. (location) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither.
    • Please come here.
  3. (abstract) In this context.
    • 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.
  4. At this point in the argument, narration, or other, usually written, work.
    • Here endeth the lesson.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

here (uncountable)

  1. (abstract) This place; this location.
    • An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives.
    • Here is where I met my spouse twelve years ago.
  2. (abstract) This time, the present situation.

Quotations

  • 1922, Francis Herbert Bradley, The Principles of Logic, page 52:
    • For time and extension seem continuous elements; the here is one space with the other heres round it
  • 2001, Kauhiko Yatabe; edited by Harumi Befu, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, “Objects, city and wandering: the invisibility of the Japanese in France”, in Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe, and America, page 28:
    • More than ever, the here is porous.
  • 2004, Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land, page 20:
    • We can't see it because it is an aspect of our seeing, it is a function of our gaze: the field of the here is established in — and by — our presence.

Translations

Adjective

here (not comparable)

  1. Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis.
    • John here is a rascal.
  2. Filler after a demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis.
    • This here orange is too sour.

Interjection

here

  1. (slang) Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.
    • Here, now I'm giving it to you.
  2. (Ireland, Britain, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
    • Here, I'm tired and I want a drink.

Translations

Anagrams

here - Dutch

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈɦeː.rə/
  • Hyphenation: he‧re

Noun

here m (plural heren, diminutive heertje n)

  1. (archaic) inflected form of heer (lord)

Anagrams

here - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈhɛrɛ]
  • Hyphenation: he‧re

Noun

here (plural herék)

  1. (anatomy) testicle, testis (the male sex and endocrine gland)
  2. drone (a male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee)
  3. (derogatory) loafer, drone (someone who doesn't work; a lazy person, an idler)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of here

Derived terms

Compound words

Noun

here (plural herék)

  1. (folksy) clover (a plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of here

Derived terms

Compound words
  • eperhere
  • farkashere
  • tarlóhere
Expressions
  • apró here
  • arany here
  • bíbor here
  • egyvirágú here
  • erdei here
  • fehér here
  • földbentermő here
  • havasi here
  • hólyagos here
  • lándzsás here
  • magyar here
  • pusztai here
  • réti here
  • sávos here
  • sudár here
  • sziki here
  • tavaszi here

here - Latin

Alternative forms

Adverb

here (not comparable)

  1. yesterday

Verb

hērē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of hēreō

here - Middle Dutch

Noun

hêre m

  1. lord, high-ranked person
  2. God, the Lord
  3. ruler
  4. leader
  5. gentleman (respectful title for a male)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

- general:

  • hereloos
  • heren
  • herenbroot
  • herendienst
  • herengelt
  • herengoet
  • herengroot
  • herengulden
  • herenhofstede
  • herennoot
  • herenpacht
  • herenpont
  • herenvede

- persons:

  • ambachtshere
  • baenritshere
  • biechthere
  • broothere
  • capittelhere
  • clochere
  • cloosterhere
  • coorhere
  • craemhere
  • doemhere
  • dusenthere
  • erfhere
  • gronthere
  • groothere
  • hallehere
  • halshere
  • hovethere
  • huushere
  • jonchere
  • kerchere
  • laethere
  • lanthere
  • leenhere
  • leitshere
  • maenhere
  • mijnhere
  • oosthere
  • opperhere
  • orlogeshere
  • overhere
  • pachthere
  • panthere
  • parhere
  • pijnhere
  • provendehere
  • raemhere
  • raethere
  • rijnhere
  • scheideshere
  • schermhere
  • schiphere
  • schoonhere
  • schouthere
  • smalhere
  • swegerhere
  • tiendehere
  • tijnshere
  • toverhere
  • velthere
  • verlaetshere
  • vrihere
  • vuurhere
  • wijnhere
  • withere

Descendants


Noun

hēre n

  1. army, band of troops

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

here - Middle English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈhɛːr(ə)/

Noun

here

  1. a military force; a troop, host, or army
  2. a group of people; a team, band, throng, or mass
  3. any group or set of things or creatures
  4. fighting, battle; conflict between armed forces
  5. (rare) participation in the armed forces

Alternative forms

Descendants


Determiner

here (nominative pronoun he)

  1. Third-person plural genitive determiner: their

Pronoun

here (nominative he)

  1. Third-person plural possessive pronoun: theirs, of them

Alternative forms

Derived terms

  • he (they)

Descendants


Adjective

here

  1. pleasant, gentle
  2. noble, excellent

Alternative forms

Descendants


Noun

here (plural heres or heren or here)

  1. haircloth

Alternative forms

Descendants


Noun

here (plural heren)

  1. Alternative form of herre (lord)

Noun

here (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of hire (wages)

Noun

here (plural heres)

  1. Alternative form of hare (hare)

Determiner

here

  1. Alternative form of hire (her)

Pronoun

here

  1. Alternative form of hire (hers)

Determiner

here

  1. Alternative form of hire (her)

Adverb

here

  1. Alternative form of her (here)

Noun

here (plural heres)

  1. Alternative form of heir (heir)

Noun

here (plural heres)

  1. Alternative form of yeer (year)

Adjective

here

  1. comparative degree of he (high)

Verb

here

  1. Alternative form of heren (to hear)

Verb

here

  1. Alternative form of hiren (to hire)

here - Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈxe.re/, [ˈhe.re]

Noun

here m (nominative plural herġas)

  1. army, military (especially of the enemy)

Usage notes

  • While here was mainly used for enemy armies, derived compounds such as landhere (land army) and sċiphere (navy) were still used of either side.

Declension

Case Singular Plural
nominative here herġas
accusative here herġas
genitive herġes herġa
dative herġe herġum

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

here - Saterland Frisian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈheːrə/
  • Hyphenation: he‧re

Verb

here

  1. (transitive) to hear
  2. (intransitive) to obey
  3. (intransitive) to belong to

Conjugation

Grúundfoarme here
Infinitive tou heren
Present tense Past tense
iek here wie here iek heerde wie heerden
du heerst jie here du heerdest jie heerden
hie/ju/dät heert jo here hie/ju/dät heerde jo heerden
Present participle Imperative Auxiliary Past participle
herend Singular heer häbe heerd
Plural heret

here - Yola

Adverb

here

  1. Alternative form of haar
Meaning and Definition of here
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