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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
there

	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.
                                                  8.
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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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Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
there

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