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Meaning of THERE

Pronunciation:  dhehr

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a location other than here; that place; "you can take it from there"
  2. [adv]  in or at that place; "they have lived there for years"; "it's not there"; "that man <who is> there"
  3. [adv]  to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there around noon!"
  4. [adv]  in that matter; "I agree with you there"
 
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 Synonyms: at that place, in that location, in that respect, on that point, thither
 
 Antonyms: here, here, hither
 
 See Also: location

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\There\, adv. [OE. ther, AS. [eth][=ae]r; akin to D. daar,
G. da, OHG. d[=a]r, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. [thorn]ar,
Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. [root]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}.
 

 

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