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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:

Nouns denoting people

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:

Adjectives

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:

Adverbs

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:

Adverbs

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

Credits

 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)