here
here is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.See Her, their. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- 2.Her; hers. See Her. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- 3.In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to Ant: there. He is not here, for he is risen. Matt. xxviii.
- 4.2. In the present life or state. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon.
- 5.To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither. Here comes Virgil. B. Jonson. Thou led'st me here. Byron.
- 6.At this point of time, or of an argument; now. The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. Warren. Note: Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in drinking healths. "Here's [a health] to thee, Dick." Cowley. Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed manner; irregularly. "Footsteps here and there." Longfellow. -- It is neither, here nor there, it is neither in this place nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence, it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense. Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abdomen
- abdominal
- about
- accord
- accordance
- activity
- adventure
- agreement
- all
- always
- amidst
- and
- anvil
- any
- apprentice
- aspect
- assimilate
- attitude
- avaunt
- away
- backbone
- become
- begin
- beginning
- behind
- belly
- betake
- between
- bosom
- break
- breast
- broach
- business
- cave
- center
- chorography
- circumjacence
- circumscribe
- clockwork
- coeliac
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is here.
- What is in this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to Ant: there. He is not here, for he is risen. Matt. xxviii called?
- What is 2. In the present life or state. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon called?
- What is to or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither. Here comes Virgil. B. Jonson. Thou led'st me here. Byron called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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