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theres

theres is the plural of there.

Meaning of there

Noun

there (plural theres)

  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.

See all 22 meanings of there

Contraction

theres

  1. (contraction, informal) There is; there's.
    • But theres almost as many different sorts of marriages as theres different sorts of people.1908, George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married

Questions about theres

What does theres mean?
Theres means there is; there's.
What is theres the plural of?
Theres is the plural of there.
What part of speech is theres?
Theres is a contraction.

Words near theres in the dictionary

  1. thereonto
  2. thereout
  3. thereoutside
  4. thereover
  5. thereright
  6. theres
  7. Theresa
  8. Theresa Creek
  9. Theresa Park
  10. therethrough
  11. therethroughout

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: theres (page history and authors); there (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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