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there'd been

there'd been is the past perfect of there be.

Meaning of there be

Verb

there be (highly irregular; see conjugation table)

  1. Of the specified thing: to exist, physically or abstractly.
    • Let there be light.
    Synonyms:
    there exist

Forms of there'd been

alternative formthere had been

Questions about there'd been

What is there'd been the past perfect of?
There'd been is the past perfect of there be.

Words near there'd been in the dictionary

  1. there ya go
  2. there you are
  3. there you go
  4. there you have it
  5. there'd
  6. there'd been
  7. there'll
  8. there're
  9. there's
  10. there's a first time for everything
  11. there's a good time coming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: there'd been (page history and authors); there be (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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