Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adv
For this: instead or in consideration of this, with a view to this.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: obsolete outside Scotland
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From the Middle English hēr-for; equivalent to here + for; compare herefore, therefor, and wherefor, as well as the Danish herfor, the Dutch hiervoor, the German hierfür, and the Swedish härför.
