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 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)