THERE

there. There, [thare] ad. in that place, at that time, once

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There (?), adv. [[OE. ther, AS. ðǣr; 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. 1. In or at that place. “ 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. ☞ In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. “Darkness there might well seem twilight here.” Milton. 2. 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. 3. To or into that place; thither.
The rarest that e'er came there. Shak. ☞ 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. ☞ 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. Spend their good there it is reasonable. Chaucer. Here and there, in one place and another. Syn. — See Thither.