there

Noun · Adverb

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a location other than here; that place“you can take it from there”

Adverb (3)

  1. in or at that place“they have lived there for years”“it's not there”“that man there”Synonyms: at that placein that location
  2. in that matter“I agree with you there”Synonyms: in that respecton that point
  3. to or toward that place; away from the speaker“go there around noon!”Synonyms: thither
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

There \There\, adv. [OE. ther, AS. [eth][=ae]r; akin to D. daar, G. da, OHG. d[=a]r, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. [thorn]ar, Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. [root]184. See That, pron.]

1.In or at that place. "[They] there left me and my man, both bound together." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.— Ge. ii. 8.[1913 Webster]

Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. "Darkness there might well seem twilight here." --Milton. [1913 Webster]

2.In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech. [1913 Webster]

The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.To or into that place; thither. [1913 Webster]

The rarest that e'er came there.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Note: There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling the attention to something, especially to something distant; as, there, there! see there! look there! There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject. [1913 Webster]

A knight there was, and that a worthy man.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]
There is a path which no fowl knoweth.— Job xxviii. 7.[1913 Webster]
Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced.— Locke.[1913 Webster]
There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue.— Suckling.[1913 Webster]

Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc. [1913 Webster]

Note: There was formerly used in the sense of where. [1913 Webster]

Spend their good there it is reasonable.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

Here and there, in one place and another. [1913 Webster]

Syn: See Thither. [1913 Webster] Thereabout

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