here
/hɪɹ/ adverb A1- In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there. · You wait here while I fetch my coat.· Ms. Doe is not here at the moment.
- At this point or stage (in a process, argument, narration, etc.) · I've had enough of peeling potatoes. I'm stopping here.· Here endeth the lesson.
- In this matter. · You say that all men are born equal, but here I must disagree with you.
- Notionally at the speaker's location by virtue of happening now. · Flu season is here.
- In this context.
- After the name of a person perceived as located close to the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person. · Jim here has been with the company for twenty years.
- To this place; used in place of the literary or archaic hither. · Please come here.
From the library
Arrived here only yesterday morning, and married today at three o’clock!
I shall be back here by the first of March, and on the second I give my real marriage feast.”
“Little Jerry Buote from the Creek was here this morning, and I told him I guessed I’d hire him for the summer.”
In the next room is a new instrument just come down for her--a present from my master: she comes here to-morrow with him.”
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