Category:There

There, adv. Etym: [oe. ther, as. th\'d6r; akin to d. daar, g. da, Ohg. dar, sw. & dan. der, icel. & goth. Þar, skr. tarhi then, and e. That. *184. See that, pron.]

1. In or at that place. "[they] there left me and my man, both bound Together." Shak. The lord god planted a garden eastward in eden; and there he put the Man whom he had formed. Ge. ii. 8.

Note: in distinction from here, there usually signifies a place Farther off. "darkness there might well seem twilight here." Milton.

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. The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend and turns it to Exile; there art thou happy. Shak.

3. To or into that place; thither. The rarest that e'er came there. Shak.

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

Note: there is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a Pronoun. See thereabout, thereafter, therefrom, etc.

Note: there was formerly used in the sense of where. Spend their good there it is reasonable. Chaucer. Here and there, in one place and another.

Syn. -- see thither.