There (?), adv. [OE. ther, AS. ð&aemacr;r; akin to D.
daar, G. da, OHG. dār, 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. &fist; 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. &fist; 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. &fist;
There is much used in composition, and often has the
sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc.
&fist; 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.
Hear it pronounced