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there

Pronunciation: /ðə(ɹ)/

The English word “there” has 20 meanings listed here.

adverb

  1. In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).
  2. At that point, stage, etc., visualised as a distinct place.
  3. In a notional place where one will provide support or care; see also be there.
  4. In existence in some place.
  5. In its correct position, so as to be fully and properly fitted or inserted.
  6. After the name of a person perceived as located ‘away’ from the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.
  7. After certain determiners, especially ‘them’, ‘that’ and ‘those’, used to emphasise demonstrative sense; see also them there.
  8. In a notional place or situation of mental soundness and competence; see also all there.
  9. To or into a place or location; thither.
  10. Into an undesirable topic or subject matter; see also go there.
  11. In that matter, relation, etc..
  12. Where, there where, in which place.
  13. In this world: used to say that someone or something exists; see also pronoun section below.

interjection

  1. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy; see also there, there and there now.
  2. Used to express victory or completion.

noun

  1. That place (previously mentioned or otherwise implied).
  2. That situation; that position.

pronoun

  1. Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.
  2. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.
  3. Used with other verbs, when raised.

Etymology

From Middle English there, ther, thare, thar, thore, from Old English þēr, þǣr, þār (“there; at that place”), from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“at that place; there”), from Proto-Indo-European *tó-r (“there”), from demonstrative pronominal base *to- (“the, that”) + adverbial suffix *-r. Cognate with Scots thar, thair (“there”), North Frisian dear, deer, där (“there”),…

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