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Dictionary: here   (hîr) pronunciation

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.

n.
  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.
idiom:

neither here nor there

  1. Unimportant and irrelevant.

[Middle English, from Old English hēr.]


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