hyer
hyer is the obsolete spelling of higher.
hyer is the obsolete spelling of here.
hyer is the obsolete spelling of hire.
Meaning of higher
Noun
higher (plural highers)
- A national school-leaving examination and university entrance qualification.
Meaning of here
Adverb
here (not comparable)
- In, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.
- You wait here while I fetch my coat.
- Synonyms:
- right here
- At this point or stage (in a process, argument, narration, etc.)
- I've had enough of peeling potatoes. I'm stopping here.
- In this matter.
- You say that all men are born equal, but here I must disagree with you.
- Notionally at the speaker's location by virtue of happening now.
- Flu season is here.
- In this context.
- Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.
- After the name of a person perceived as located close to the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.
- Jim here has been with the company for twenty years.
Proper noun capitalized: Hyer
Hyer (plural Hyers)
- A surname from German.
Forms of hyer
| plural | Hyers |
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Origin of hyer
Americanized spelling of German Heier, Hayer or Heyer.
Questions about hyer
- What does hyer mean?
- Hyer means a surname from German.
- What is hyer the obsolete spelling of?
- Hyer is the obsolete spelling of higher.
- What part of speech is hyer?
- Hyer is a proper noun.
Words near hyer in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hyer (page history and authors); Hyer (page history and authors); higher (page history and authors); here (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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