Here

Here , noun

Hair. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Here (hẽr) , pronoun

See Her, their. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Her; hers. See Her. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Here (hēr) , adverb

[Old English her, Anglo-Saxon hēr; akin to Old Saxon hēr, Dutch hier, Old High German hiar, German hier, Icelandic & Gothic hēr, Danish her, Swedish har; from root of English he. See He.]

In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there.

He is not here, for he is risen. — Matt. xxviii. 6

In the present life or state.

Happy here, and more happy hereafter. — Bacon

To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither.

Here comes Virgil. — B. Jonson

Thou led'st me here. — Byron

At this point of time, or of an argument; now.

The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. — Warren

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.”

Collocations (2)

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. — Shakespeare