HERE AND NOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does here and now mean? 

• HERE AND NOW (noun)
  The noun HERE AND NOW has 1 sense:

1. at this time

  Familiarity information: HERE AND NOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERE AND NOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At this time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

here and now; moment; present moment

Context example:

she is studying at the moment

Hypernyms ("here and now" is a kind of...):

nowadays; present (the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech)

 Context examples 

Now men, to our Council of War; for, here and now, we must plan what each and all shall do.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I will come to you here and now, in free love if you will, and I will be proud and glad to be with you.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Eternity is eternity, and though you die here and now you will go on living somewhere else and hereafter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"I could decide if I were but certain," I answered: "were I but convinced that it is God's will I should marry you, I could vow to marry you here and now—come afterwards what would!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was no life beyond, he had contended; it was here and now, then darkness everlasting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Your chest is heaving, your tongue protruding, your skin turning dark, your eyes swimming. ‘To live! To live! To live!’ you are crying; and you are crying to live here and now, not hereafter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)