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over here

over here

∞ 1.0
At the place where I am
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : aquí
  • Could you come over here for a moment to help me?
  • come over here
  • say over here

But hey, they're all over here in this circle now.

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Examples

  • We've got books over here and a bunch of tools.

  • "You are not going to believe what happened to me on the way over here."

    Academic text (2007)

  • So the two should be over here then.

  • I shall go over here to the tea.

  • And then we go over here and we have my dress.

  • So it feels really cool over here so far.

  • Could we get some coffee over here, today?

    The Wrath of Becky (2023)

  • Oh, it's right over here...

    The Birthmark Killer (2021)

  • So I hiked in all the way over here to what you see now.

  • What a hassle getting over here from the station.

    The Front Page (1974)

Synonyms

here
vsover here
∞ 1.0

At the place where the speaker or writer is

is limited to the place where the speaker is rather than a writer
hereabout
vsover here
  • Archaic
1 6.9

Near this place or in this area

is the specific place where the speaker is rather than just nearby
hereabouts
vsover here
1 5.4

Near this place in the local area

is the exact place at the speaker's location rather than the surrounding area

Antonyms

over there
∞ 1.0

A place a short way away from here

away
5 1.0

Not in a place because someone has gone somewhere else

Surface Forms

over here positive

Morphology

over + here

The meaning 'in this particular place' is directly and compositionally derived from 'over' (indicating location/motion across/above) combined with 'here' (at the speaker's location). This straightforward locative construction is common cross-linguistically and should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.

Etymology

Over here comes from the simple image of someone pointing and asking something to move over to here, right beside the speaker. That's why it means 'in this particular place' or 'to the place where the speaker is'.