* (UK) IPA(key): /hɪə(ɹ)/ * (US, stressed) IPA(key): /hi(ə)ɹ/ * (US, unstressed) IPA(key): /hiɹ/, /hɪɹ/ * Rhymes: -ɪə(r) * Homophones: hear, hir

From Middle English _here_, from Old English _hēr_ (“in this place”), from Proto-Germanic _*hē₂r_, from Proto-Indo-European _*ki-_ (“this”) + adverbial suffix _*-r_. Cognate with the English pronoun _he_, German _hier_, Dutch _hier_, _her_, Icelandic _hér_, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish _her_, Swedish _här_. ADVERB HERE (_not comparable_) * (location) In, on, or at this place. _I'm HERE!_ * 1849, Alfred Tennyson, _In Memoriam A. H. H._, VII, Dark house, by which once more I stand / HERE in the long unlovely street, * 2008, Omar Khadr, _Affidavit of Omar Ahmed Khadr_, The Canadian visitor stated, “I’m not HERE to help you. I’m not HERE to do anything for you. I’m just HERE to get information.” * (location) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither. _Please come HERE._ * 1891, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, _The Yellow Wall-Paper_, He said we came HERE solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get. * (abstract) In this context. _Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but HERE they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve._ * 1872 May, Edward Burnett Tylor, _Quetelet on the Science of Man_, published in _Popular Science Monthly_, Volume 1, The two great generalizations which the veteran Belgian astronomer has brought to bear on physiological and mental science, and which it is proposed to describe popularly HERE, may be briefly defined: * 1904 January 15, William James, _The Chicago School_, published in _Psychological Bulletin_, 1.1, pages 1-5, The briefest characterization is all that will be attempted HERE. * At this point in the argument or narration. _HERE endeth the lesson._ * 1796, George Washington, _Washington's Farewell Address_, HERE, perhaps I ought to stop. DERIVED TERMS TRANSLATIONS NOUN HERE (_uncountable_) * (abstract) This place; this location. _An Alzheimer patient's HERE may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives._ * (abstract) This time, the present situation. _HERE in history, we are less diligent about quashing monopolies._ QUOTATIONS TRANSLATIONS ADJECTIVE HERE (_comparative_ MORE HERE, _superlative_ MOST HERE) * Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis. _John HERE is a rascal._ * Filler after a demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis. _This HERE orange is too sour._ INTERJECTION HERE * (UK, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want. _HERE, I'm tired and I want a drink._ SEE ALSO * hence * here- * hereabouts * hither * there

From Old Scots _heir_, from Middle English _here_, _heere_ (“army”), from Old English _here_ (“army”), from Proto-Germanic _*harjaz_ (“army”), from Proto-Indo-European _*kory-_ (“war, troops”). Cognate with Old Saxon _heri_ (“army”), Dutch _heer_, _heir_, Old High German _heri_, _hari_ (“army”) (German _Heer_), Danish _hær_ (“army”), Gothic

* Here

* Rhymes: -eːrə * Hyphenation: he‧re

HERE m (_plural_ HEREN, _diminutive_ HEERTJE n) * (archaic) inflected form of _heer_ (lord)

* heer

* IPA(key): /ˈhɛrɛ/ * Hyphenation: he‧re

HERE (_plural_ herék) * A testicle * A drone DECLENSION DERIVED TERMS * herél * herélt * lóhere

From Proto-Germanic _*harjaz_, from Proto-Indo-European _*korio-_. Cognate with Old Saxon _heri_ (Dutch _heer_), Old High German _heri_ (German _Heer_), Old Norse _herr_ (Swedish _här_, Danish _hær_), Gothic

* IPA(key): /ˈhere/

HERE m * An army (especially of the enemy) _Sio fierd ðone HERE gefliemde._ The English force put the [Danish] army to flight. (_Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_) DERIVED TERMS * heregrīma * heretoga * stælhere "marauding band or army" DECLENSION