there

there
1. adverb /ðɛə(ɹ),ðɛɹ/
a) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here).

And in a dark and dankish vault at home / There left me and my man, both bound together;

b) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.

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

2. noun /ðɛə(ɹ),ðɛɹ/
a) That place.

You get it ready; Ill take it from there.

b) That status; that position.
3. pronoun /ðɛə(ɹ),ðɛɹ/
in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.

There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]


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  • There — 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • there'd — Date: 1691 there had ; there would …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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