here and there

here and there

English

Adverb

here and there (not comparable)

1. In, at or to various places; in one place and another.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:

     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.

   • 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., OCLC 297099816:

     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.

   • 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., OCLC 17392886; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914, OCLC 1224185:

     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.

2. (uncommon) From time to time; intermittently, occasionally.
   • 2009, John Bogard, The Message from the Cosmos, page 63:

     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 […] .

   • 2011, R. E. Donald, chapter 23, in Slow Curve on the Coquihalla:

     Yep. Since nineteen sixty, or thereabouts. Missed a few years, here and there.

Related terms

• here, there and everywhere

Translations

in one place and another

Arabic: هُنَا وَهُنَاكَ‎ (hunā wa-hunāka) Egyptian Arabic: هنا وهناك‎ (hena we-hnak) Catalan: ençà i enllà Czech: sem tam Danish: her og der Dutch: hier en daar, her en der Esperanto: dise Finnish: siellä täällä (fi) (in, at); sinne tänne (to) French: par-ci, par-là (fr), çà et là (fr), ici et là (fr) German: hier und da (de) Greek: ενιαχού (el) (eniachoú) Ancient: ἐνιαχοῦ (eniakhoû) Hindi: यहाँ-वहाँ (yahā̃-vahā̃), इधर-उधर (idhar-udhar), इतस्ततः (hi) (itastataḥ) Hungarian: itt-ott, ide-oda (hu) Icelandic: hér og þar (is) Japanese: 彼方此方 (achira kochira) Latin: passim, dispersē Malvi: अँई-वँई (ãī-vãī) Maori: kōtiwhatiwha, āputaputa Norwegian: Bokmål: her og der Polish: tu i tam (pl), tam i sam, gdzieniegdzie (pl), tu i ówdzie (pl), miejscami (pl) Portuguese: aqui e ali, lá e cá Romanian: încoace și încolo Russian: и там и тут (i tam i tut), там и сям (tam i sjam), тут и там (tut i tam) (in, at); туда́-сюда́ (ru) (tudá-sjudá) (to) Sanskrit: इतस्ततस् (sa) (itastatas) Scottish Gaelic: an siud 's an seo, thall 's a-bhos Spanish: aquí y allí (es) Swahili: huko na huko Swedish: här och där (sv) Turkish: orada burada, orda burda (colloquial) Ukrainian: поде́куди (uk) (podékudy)

from time to time — see from time to time

See also

• hither and thither

References

• here and there at OneLook Dictionary Search