there

1. 1.

   (not comparable)(location) 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!

   There's that book I've been looking for!

   1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Genesis, 2, viii, The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

2. 2.

   (not comparable)(location) To or into a place or location; thither.

   I've never been to Disneyland. Can we go there?

   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:

3. 3.

   (figuratively, not comparable)In that matter, relation, etc..

   You say that the president is a crook, and I certainly agree with you there.

4. 4.

   (not comparable, obsolete)Where, there where, in which place.

5. 5.

   (not comparable)In this world: used to say that someone or something exists; see also pronoun section below.

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1. 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. 2.

   Used to express victory or completion.

   There! That knot should hold.

1. 1.

   That place (previously mentioned or otherwise implied).

   We need someone to take us from here to there.

2. 2.

   That situation; that position.

   You rinse and de-string the green beans; I'll take it from there.

darderderethurthardeythare

1. 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.

   1909, Leo Tolstoy, translator not mentioned, There are No Guilty People, in The Forged Coupon and Other Stories, There was a time when I tried to change my position, which was not in harmony with my conscience; […] .

2. 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,

   1897, James Baldwin, The Story of Abraham Lincoln: The Kentucky Home, in Four Great Americans, Not far from Hodgensville, in Kentucky, there once lived a man whose name was Thomas Lincoln.

   1904, Uriel Waldo Cutler, Stories of King Arthur and His Knights, Chapter XXXI: How Sir Launcelot Found the Holy Grail, On a night, as he slept, there came a vision unto him, and a voice said, "Launcelot, arise up, and take thine armour, and enter into the first ship that thou shalt find."

3. 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. 4.

   (idiomatic, in compounds)(in combination with certain prepositions, no longer productive) That.

   therefor, thereat, thereunder

5. 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.

1. 1.

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

1. 1.

   (alt of, misspelling)Misspelling of their.