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:

     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[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:

     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; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1953 November, H. M. Madgwick, “A Last Journey on the Chichester-Midhurst Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 775:

     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.

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.

Synonyms

• hither and yon

 

Related terms

• here, there and everywhere

Translations

in one place and another

• Albanian: andej-këtej (sq)
• Arabic: هُنَا وَهُنَاكَ (hunā wa-hunāka)

  Egyptian Arabic: هنا وهناك (hena we-hnak)

• Catalan: ençà i enllà
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 到處／到处 (zh) (dàochù), 滿處／满处 (zh) (mǎnchù)

• Czech: sem tam
• Danish: her og der
• Dutch: hier en daar, her en der (nl)
• 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)

• Gujarati: અહીંતહીં (ahī̃thī̃), આમતેમ (āmatem), જ્યાં ત્યાં (jyā̃ tyā̃)
• Hindi: यहाँ-वहाँ (yahā̃-vahā̃), इधर-उधर (idhar-udhar), इतस्ततः (hi) (itastataḥ)
• Hungarian: itt-ott (hu), ide-oda (hu)
• Icelandic: hér og þar (is)
• Italian: qua e là
• Japanese: 彼方此方 (ja) (あちらこ​ちら, achirakochira), 彼方此方 (ja) (あっち​こっち, atchikotchi)
• Korean: 곳곳 (ko) (gotgot), 여기저기 (ko) (yeogijeogi)
• Latin: passim, dispersē
• Malvi: अँई-वँई (ãī-vãī)
• Maori: kōtiwhatiwha, āputaputa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: her og der

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: جابِجا (fa) (jâbejâ)

• 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)
• Urdu: جابَجا (jābajā), اِدَھر اُدَھر (idhar udhar), یَہاں وَہاں (yahā̃ vahā̃)

from time to time — see from time to time

See also

• hither and thither

References

• “here and there”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.