there
Forms
- Plural
- theres
Definitions
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).
- The air there is beneficial to health.
- There's that book I've been looking for!
- I know that aliens are there, somewhere.
2.To or into a place or location; thither.
- And the rarest that e’er came there.
- I've never been to Disneyland. Can we go there?
- He started to talk about .. you know .. and I told him please don't go there.
3.In that matter, relation, etc.
- You say that the president is a crook, and I certainly agree with you there.
4.In this world: used to say that someone or something exists; see also pronoun section below.
- These firms do not want the truth to get out and are financing these flights in the hope of dazzling the public. Yet the record of the gas engine is there for all to see.
1.Used to express victory or completion.
- There! That knot should hold.
2.Used to offer encouragement or sympathy; see also there, there and there now.
- There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
1.That place (previously mentioned or otherwise implied).
- We need someone to take us from here to there.
2.That situation; that position.
- You rinse and de-string the green beans; I'll take it from there.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #55
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Very common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
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.