there

Adverb

there (not comparable)

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).
   • I know Bristol quite well as I used to live there.
   • I looked in the cupboard and my keys were there!
   1. (figuratively) At that point, stage, etc., visualised as a distinct place.
      • He did not stop there, but continued his speech.
      • They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there.
   2. In a notional place where one will provide support or care; see also be there.
      • You know that I will always be there for you.
   3. In existence in some place.
      • I know that aliens are there, somewhere.
   4. (informal) In its correct position, so as to be fully and properly fitted or inserted.
      • If I just push this in here like this, it should .... Ah! Good! It's there!
   5. (informal) After the name of a person perceived as located ‘away’ from the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.
      • Jim there has been with the company for twenty years.
   6. (dialectal) After certain determiners, especially ‘them’, ‘that’ and ‘those’, used to emphasise demonstrative sense; see also them there.
      • Your dog's been a-chasin' those there chickens.
   7. (informal) In a notional place or situation of mental soundness and competence; see also all there.
      • I spoke to her, but she didn't make much sense. I don't think she's totally there.
2. To or into a place or location; thither.
   • I've never been to Disneyland. Can we go there?
   • A knight there was, and that a worthy man / […]1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne]...
   1. Into an undesirable topic or subject matter; see also go there.
      • He started to talk about ... you know ... and I told him please don't go there.
3. (figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc..
   • You say that the president is a crook, and I certainly agree with you there.
4. (obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
5. 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.1928 January, Captain Ferdinand Tuohy, “Why Don't We Fly?”, in Popular Science, page 144

Interjection

1. Used to offer encouragement or sympathy; see also there, there and there now.
   • There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.
2. Used to express victory or completion.
   • There! That knot should hold.

Noun

there (plural theres)

1. That place (previously mentioned or otherwise implied).
   • We need someone to take us from here to there.
   • anyway what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.1937, Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, page 289
2. That situation; that position.
   • You rinse and de-string the green beans; I'll take it from there.

Pronoun

there

1. Used as an expletive subject of be 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.]
   • There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.]
2. Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.
   • If x is a positive number, then there exists [=there is] a positive number y less than x.
   • There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.]
3. Used with other verbs, when raised.
   • There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. [=It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.]
   • I expected there to be a simpler solution. [=I expected that there would be a simpler solution.]
4. (idiomatic, in-compounds) That.
   • therefor, thereat, thereunder
5. (colloquial) Appended to words of greeting etc.
   • Hi there, young fellow.
   • Oh, hello there, Bob, how are you doing?