'Here and there' definitions:

Definition of 'here and there'

From: WordNet
adverb
In or to various places; first this place and then that; "he worked here and there but never for long in one town"; "we drove here and there in the darkness"

Definition of 'Here and there'

From: GCIDE
  • Here \Here\ (h[=e]r), adv. [OE. her, AS. h[=e]r; akin to OS. h[=e]r, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. h[=e]r, Dan. her, Sw. h[aum]r; fr. root of E. he. See He.]
  • 1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there. [1913 Webster]
  • He is not here, for he is risen. --Matt. xxviii. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. In the present life or state. [1913 Webster]
  • Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither. [1913 Webster]
  • Here comes Virgil. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou led'st me here. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now. [1913 Webster]
  • The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. --Warren. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: 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." --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. --Shak. Herea-bout

Definition of 'Here and there'

From: GCIDE
  • There \There\, adv. [OE. ther, AS. [eth][=ae]r; akin to D. daar, G. da, OHG. d[=a]r, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. [thorn]ar, Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. [root]184. See That, pron.]
  • 1. In or at that place. "[They] there left me and my man, both bound together." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. --Ge. ii. 8. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. "Darkness there might well seem twilight here." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech. [1913 Webster]
  • The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To or into that place; thither. [1913 Webster]
  • The rarest that e'er came there. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling the attention to something, especially to something distant; as, there, there! see there! look there! There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject. [1913 Webster]
  • A knight there was, and that a worthy man. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • There is a path which no fowl knoweth. --Job xxviii. 7. [1913 Webster]
  • Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue. --Suckling. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: There was formerly used in the sense of where. [1913 Webster]
  • Spend their good there it is reasonable. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Here and there, in one place and another. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: See Thither. [1913 Webster] Thereabout

Synonyms of 'here and there'

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