there

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there - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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              The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
              there he put the man whom he had formed. --Ge. ii.
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     Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a
           place farther off. "Darkness there might well seem
           twilight here." --Milton.
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     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.
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              The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend
              And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. --Shak.
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     3. To or into that place; thither.
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              The rarest that e'er came there.      --Shak.
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     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.
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                 A knight there was, and that a worthy man.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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                 There is a path which no fowl knoweth. --Job
                                                    xxviii. 7.
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                 Wherever there is a sense or perception, there
                 some idea is actually produced.    --Locke.
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                 There have been that have delivered themselves
                 from their ills by their good fortune or virtue.
                                                    --Suckling.
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     Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the
           sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter,
           Therefrom, etc.
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     Note: There was formerly used in the sense of where.
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                 Spend their good there it is reasonable.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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     Here and there, in one place and another.
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     Syn: See Thither.
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there - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  there
      adv 1: in or at that place; "they have lived there for years";
             "it's not there"; "that man there" [syn: there, at  that place
             , in that location] [ant: here]
      2: in that matter; "I agree with you there" [syn: there, in   that respect
         , on that point]
      3: to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there
         around noon!" [syn: there, thither] [ant: here,
         hither]
      n 1: a location other than here; that place; "you can take it
           from there" [ant: here]