There

There , adverb

[Old English ther, Anglo-Saxon ear; akin to Dutch daar, German da, Old High German dār, Swedish & Danish der, Icelandic & Gothic þar, Sanskrit tarhi then, and English that. r184. See That, pron.]

In or at that place.

[They] there left me and my man, both bound together. — Shakespeare

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

In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. “Darkness there might well seem twilight here.” Milton.

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. — Shakespeare

To or into that place; thither.

The rarest that e'er came there. — Shakespeare

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

Spend their good there it is reasonable. — Chaucer

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.

There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc.

There was formerly used in the sense of where.

Collocations (1)

Here and there , in one place and another.