here

1. 1.

   the present location; this place

   “where do we go from here?”

   Antonymsthere

   Broaderlocation
2. 2.

   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

   SynonymsHera

   BroaderGreek deity

1. 1.

   being here now

   “is everyone here?”

   Similarpresent

Other forms of here

plural

heres·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about here

What does here mean?

here means "in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in here?

here has 1 syllable: here. In IPA it is /ˈhiɹ/.

What is another word for here?

Close synonyms include hither, Hera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of here?

The recorded antonyms are there, there, there.

Is here a common word?

here is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with here?

3 words rhyme with here. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.