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HERE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The present location; this place
Example:
where do we go from here?
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("here" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Antonym:
there (a location other than here; that place)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology; sister and wife of Zeus remembered for her jealously of the many mortal women Zeus fell in love with; identified with Roman Juno
Synonyms:
Hera; Here
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being here now
Example:
is everyone here?
Classified under:
Similar:
present (being or existing in a specified place)
Derivation:
hereness (the state of being here in this place)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
Example:
radio waves received here on Earth
Classified under:
Antonym:
there (in or at that place or location)
Sense 2
Meaning:
To this place (especially toward the speaker)
Example:
come here, please
Synonyms:
here; hither
Classified under:
Antonym:
there (to or toward that place; away from the speaker)
Sense 3
Meaning:
In this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail
Example:
here I must disagree
Classified under:
Adverbs
Sense 4
Meaning:
At this time; now
Example:
we'll adjourn here for lunch and discuss the remaining issues this afternoon
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
But I live on broken wittles—and I sleep on the coals”—here the waiter burst into tears.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He had done no wrong, broken no law, yet here was this boy preparing to give him a beating.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was his desire to understand all things that white men understand, and here, in this matter, he failed.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I took her part, got her into a cab, and here we are.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
'Offe Caraccas,' now; you see, here was some unhappy vessel boarded off that coast.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There’s young Master Stone here who wouldn’t refuse to go and see a good lady, I’ll warrant, if he thought he might better his fortune by doing so.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet the king hath given me a living here in the southlands, and please God these two lads of mine will pay off a debt that hath been owing over long.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here, the protein ‘melts’ and releases the RNA.
(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)
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