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here and there en · ADV

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In, at or to various places; in one place and another.
    • Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian blackness of the jungle's depths. 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
    • Although the country branch lines may pass, they leave with those who have known them so well an ineffaceable memory[,] and for those who will follow after[,] a memorial in the form of embankment, cutting and tunnel[,] with here and there a station building or railway cottage that time does not destroy. 1953 November, H. M. Madgwick, “A Last Journey on the Chichester-Midhurst Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 775:
    • They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups. 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
    • Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
  2. (not-comparable, uncommon) From time to time; intermittently, occasionally.
    • Before we study his ideas, it is useful to note here again that extraterrestrial powers intervened here and there in his life, as early as his birth, then his baptism […]. 2009, John Bogard, The Message from the Cosmos, page 63:
    • I get the odd day off here and there.
    • Yep. Since nineteen sixty, or thereabouts. Missed a few years, here and there. 2011, R. E. Donald, chapter 23, in Slow Curve on the Coquihalla:

Relateds

here, there and everywhere · hither and thither

Synonyms

hither and yon · here and yonder · hither and yonder

Translations (75)

da her og der (in one place and another) · gu અહીંતહીં (in one place and another) · fi siellä täällä (in one place and another) · es de ceca en meca (in one place and another) · pt lá e cá (in one place and another) · es acá y acullá (in one place and another) · gu આમતેમ (in one place and another) · ru и там и тут (in one place and another) · ja 彼方此方 (in one place and another) · arz هنا وهناك (in one place and another) · cmn 滿處 /满处 (in one place and another) · tr orada burada (in one place and another) · mi kōtiwhatiwha (in one place and another) · sq andej-këtej (in one place and another) · es de acá para acullá (in one place and another) · ko 여기저기 (in one place and another) · gd an siud 's an seo (in one place and another) · ja 彼方此方 (in one place and another) · gu જ્યાં ત્યાં (in one place and another) · pl tu i ówdzie (in one place and another) · nl hier en daar (in one place and another) · tr orda burda (in one place and another) · es de aquí para allí (in one place and another) · ca ençà i enllà (in one place and another) · eo dise (in one place and another) · it qua e là (in one place and another) · es de acá para allá (in one place and another) · hi इधर-उधर (in one place and another) · es de la ceca a la meca (in one place and another) · ko 곳곳 (in one place and another) · ru там и сям (in one place and another) · pl miejscami (in one place and another) · hu itt-ott (in one place and another) · ro încoace și încolo (in one place and another) · cmn 到處 /到处 (in one place and another) · fa-ira جابِجا (in one place and another) · hu ide-oda (in one place and another) · ru там и тут (in one place and another) · grc ἐνιαχοῦ (in one place and another) · de hier und da (in one place and another) · sa इतस्ततस् (in one place and another) · gd thall 's a-bhos (in one place and another) · mup अँई-वँई (in one place and another) · hi यहाँ-वहाँ (in one place and another) · ru тут и там (in one place and another) · fr ici et là (in one place and another) · fr çà et là (in one place and another) · is hér og þar (in one place and another) · mi āputaputa (in one place and another) · es acá y allá (in one place and another) · el ενιαχού (in one place and another) · hi इतस्ततः (in one place and another) · uk поде́куди (in one place and another) · ar هُنَا وَهُنَاكَ (in one place and another) · pl gdzieniegdzie (in one place and another) · sv här och där (in one place and another) · es de aquí para allá (in one place and another) · es aquí y allí (in one place and another) · sk sem-tam (in one place and another) · cs sem tam (in one place and another) · ru туда́-сюда́ (in one place and another) · fr par-ci, par-là (in one place and another) · ur جابَجا (in one place and another) · ur اِدَھر اُدَھر (in one place and another) · pl tam i sam (in one place and another) · ur یَہاں وَہاں (in one place and another) · pl tu i tam (in one place and another) · sw huko na huko (in one place and another) · la dispersē (in one place and another) · nb her og der (in one place and another) · pt aqui e ali (in one place and another) · nl her en der (in one place and another) · fi sinne tänne (in one place and another) · eo jen kaj jen (in one place and another) · la passim (in one place and another)