UP HERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does up here mean? 

• UP HERE (adverb)
  The adverb UP HERE has 1 sense:

1. in a specified area or place

  Familiarity information: UP HERE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UP HERE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a specified area or place

Synonyms:

over here; up here

Context example:

you shouldn't be up here

 Context examples 

"Why, I used to think that up here, where all the advantages of culture were enjoyed—"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Whatever they wanted to bring me all the way up here for, and then—”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neither of the bands hears the other, but up here I hear and see them both.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This rang pleasantly in the tailor’s ears; he stretched his delicate head out of the window, and called: “Come up here, dear woman; here you will get rid of your goods.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It’s a big month, and the trends you see starting up here are not fleeting—they will be in place a year.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“In my house! Ben, run and help Harry. One of those swabs, was he? Was that you drinking with him, Morgan? Step up here.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Well, young fellah," said he, "who would have thought of meetin' you up here?"

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It's dull as tombs up here.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“My dear soul,” she said to him one day when I was present, “you know there is no doubt it would be a little pokey for Annie to be always shut up here.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He furnished me with a plan of the house, and he told me that in the forenoon the study was always empty, as the secretary was employed up here.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)