there Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a location other than here; that place
    • you can take it from there
  2. adverb in or at that place
    in that location; at that place.
    • they have lived there for years
    • it's not there
    • that man there
  3. adverb in that matter
    in that respect; on that point.
    • I agree with you there
  4. adverb to or toward that place; away from the speaker
    thither.
    • go there around noon!

WordNet

There adverb
Etymology
OE. ther, AS. thær; akin to D. daar, G. da, OHG. dar, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. Þar, Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. *184. See That, pron.
Definitions
  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.
    ✍ 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.
    ✍ 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.
    ✍ There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc. ✍ There was formerly used in the sense of where.
    Spend their good there it is reasonable. Chaucer.
    Syn. -- See Thither.

Webster 1913