there

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/ðə(ɹ)/
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/ðə(ɹ)/ · /ðɛə(ɹ)/ · /ðɛː(ɹ)/ · /ðɚ/ · /ðɛɚ/ · /ðɛɹ/ · /ðeː/ · [ðeːɹ] · /ðeɹ/ · /ðiə/ · /ðeə/ · /ðɜː(ɹ)/

Definition of there

24 senses · 6 parts of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (not-comparable)In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
    “I know Bristol quite well as I used to live there.”
    “I looked in the cupboard and my keys were there!”
    “The air there is beneficial to health.”
    “I consulted Wikipedia, and it says there that he died in 1970.”
    “The view up here is better than the view down there!”
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adv

  1. (not-comparable)In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
    “I know Bristol quite well as I used to live there.”
    “I looked in the cupboard and my keys were there!”
    “The air there is beneficial to health.”
    “I consulted Wikipedia, and it says there that he died in 1970.”
    “The view up here is better than the view down there!”
  2. (figuratively, not-comparable)In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
    “He did not stop there, but continued his speech.”
    “They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there.”
    “The law, that threaten’d death, becomes thy friend / And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.”
  3. (not-comparable)In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
    “You know that I will always be there for you.”
  4. (not-comparable)In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
    “I know that aliens are there, somewhere.”
  5. (informal, not-comparable)In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
    “If I just push this in here like this, it should .... Ah! Good! It's there!”
  6. (informal, not-comparable)In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
    “Jim there has been with the company for twenty years.”
  7. (dialectal, not-comparable)In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
    “Your dog's been a-chasin' those there chickens.”
  8. (informal, not-comparable)In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
    “I spoke to her, but she didn't make much sense. I don't think she's totally there.”
  9. (not-comparable)To or into a place or location; thither.
    “I've never been to Disneyland. Can we go there?”
    “A knight there was, and that a worthy man / […]”
    “And the rarest that e’er came there.”
    “So that wherever there is sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced, and present in the understanding.”
    “1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Job, 28, vii, There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:”
  10. (not-comparable)To or into a place or location; thither.
    “He started to talk about ... you know ... and I told him please don't go there.”
  11. (figuratively, not-comparable)In that matter, relation, etc..
    “You say that the president is a crook, and I certainly agree with you there.”
  12. (not-comparable, obsolete)Where, there where, in which place.
  13. (not-comparable)In this world: used to say that someone or something exists; see also pronoun section below.
    “These firms do not want the truth to get out and are financing these flights in the hope of dazzling the public. Yet the record of the gas engine is there for all to see.”

intj

  1. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy; see also there, there and there now.
    “There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.”
  2. Used to express victory or completion.
    “There! That knot should hold.”

noun

  1. That place (previously mentioned or otherwise implied).
    “We need someone to take us from here to there.”
    “anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.”
    “Some of these theres are actual, that is, situated in currently ... Other theres are only virtual”
  2. That situation; that position.
    “You rinse and de-string the green beans; I'll take it from there.”

pron

  1. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.
    “There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]”
    “There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.]”
    “Is there an answer? [=Does an answer exist?]”
    “No, there isn't. [=No, one doesn't exist.]”
    “1908, C. H. Bovill (lyrics), Jerome D. Kern (music), There’s Something Rather Odd About Augustus, song from the musical Fluffy Ruffles, It's very sad but all the same, / There’s something rather odd about Augustus.”
  2. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.
    “If x is a positive number, then there exists [=there is] a positive number y less than x.”
    “There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.]”
    “Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there lived a woodsman with his wife. [=There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.]”
    “There arose a great wind out of the east. [=There was now a great wind, arising in the east.]”
    “1895, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes: Nursery Songs, XXII: The Tree in the Wood, All in a wood there grew a fine tree,”
  3. Used with other verbs, when raised.
    “There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. [=It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.]”
    “I expected there to be a simpler solution. [=I expected that there would be a simpler solution.]”
    “There are beginning to be complications. [=It's beginning to be the case that there are complications.]”
    “There aren't supposed to be two people at the post.”
  4. (idiomatic, in-compounds)That.
    “therefor, thereat, thereunder”
  5. (colloquial)Appended to words of greeting etc.
    “Hi there, young fellow.”
    “Oh, hello there, Bob, how are you doing?”
    “Hi there! I’m Anna and I live in Washington, D.C.”

contraction

  1. (alt-of, contraction, misspelling)Misspelling of they’re.

det

  1. (alt-of, misspelling)Misspelling of their.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English there, ther, thare, thar, thore, from Old English þēr, þǣr, þār (“there; at that place”), from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“at that place; there”), from…

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From Middle English there, ther, thare, thar, thore, from Old English þēr, þǣr, þār (“there; at that place”), from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“at that place; there”), from Proto-Indo-European *tó-r (“there”), from demonstrative pronominal base *to- (“the, that”) + adverbial suffix *-r. Cognate with Scots thar, thair (“there”), North Frisian dear, deer, där (“there”), Saterland Frisian deer (“there”), West Frisian dêr (“there”), Dutch daar (“there”), Low German dar (“there”), German da, dar- (“there”), Danish der (“there”), Norwegian der (“there”), Swedish där (“there”), Icelandic þar (“in that place, there”).

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