here
pronunciation
How to pronounce here in British English:
UK [hɪə(r)]
How to pronounce here in American English:
US [hɪr]
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- Noun:
- the present location; this place
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- Adverb:
- in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
- in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail
- to this place (especially toward the speaker)
- at this time; now
Word Origin
- here
- here: [OE] Like he, here can be traced back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo-European base *ki-, *ko-, which denoted ‘thisness’ or ‘hereness’ (as opposed to ‘thatness’ or ‘thereness’). The adverbial suffix -r (as in there and where) links it to the concept of ‘place’.=> there, where
- here
- Old English her "in this place, where one puts himself," from Proto-Germanic pronominal stem *hi- (from PIE *ki- "this;" see he) + adverbial suffix -r. Cognate with Old Saxon her, Old Norse, Gothic her, Swedish här, Middle Dutch, Dutch hier, Old High German hiar, German hier. Phrase here today and gone tomorrow first recorded 1680s in writings of Aphra Behn. Here's to _____ as a toast is from 1590s, probably short for here's health to _____. In vulgar speech, this here as an adjective is attested from 1762. To be neither here nor there "of no consequence" attested from 1580s. Here we go again as a sort of verbal roll of the eyes is attested from 1950. Noun phrase here and now "this present life" is from 1829.
Antonym
Example
- 1. There are two issues here .
- 2. Rules are very important here .
- 3. I 'm here because of you .
- 4. Here again the signs are positive .
- 5. This free survey tool can be found here .