here

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in or at this place

   where the speaker or writer is

2. 2
   adv

   to this place (especially toward the speaker)

   come here, please

3. 3
   adv

   in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail

   what do we have here?

4. 4
   adv

   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.

5. 5
   adv

   To this place; used in place of the literary or archaic hither.

   Please come here.

6. 6
   adj

   Alive

   I'm not dead yet! I'm still here!

7. 7
   noun

   This place; this location.

   Here is where I met my spouse twelve years ago.

8. 8
   intj

   Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.

   Here, now I'm giving it to you.

Etymology

From Middle English her, from Old English hēr (“at this place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, from *hiz + *-r, from Proto-Indo-European *kís, from *ḱe + *ís. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian hier, West Frisian hjir, Dutch hier, German Low German hier, German hier, Danish her, Swedish här, Norwegian her, Faroese her, Icelandic hér. Also related to the English pronoun he (“this/that person”), and the words hither (“to this place”) and hence (“from this place”).