“there” – English explanatory dictionary

adv 1. in that place ○ Is that black van still there parked outside the house? ○ Where have you put the tea? – There, on the kitchen counter. 2. to that place ○ We haven’t been to the British Museum yet. – Let’s go there tomorrow. ○ Have you ever been to China? – Yes, I went there last month. 3. used when giving something to someone ○ There you are: two fish and chips and a pot of tea. (NOTE: Do not confuse with their, they’re.) ■ interj 1. showing pity ○ There, there, don’t get upset. ○ There, sit down for a little while and you’ll soon feel better. 2. showing a feeling ○ There, what did I say? The plane’s late. ○ There, you’ve broken it! 3. making a decision ○ If you don’t want to come with me, I’ll go all by myself, so there! ■ pron used usually before the verb ‘to be’ when the real subject follows the verb ○ There’s a little door leading onto the patio. ○ There’s someone at the door asking for you. ○ There are some pages missing in my newspaper. ○ Were there a lot of people at the cinema? ○ There seems to have been a lot of rain during the night.

adv. [OE. ther, AS. ðaer; akin to D. daar, G. da, OHG. dar, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. þar, Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. rad.184. See That, pron.]
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. Here and there, in one place and another. Syn. — See Thither. { There´a•bout• , There´a•bouts• } adv. [The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]
1. Near that place.
2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as ten men, or thereabouts. “Five or six thousand horse … or thereabouts.” Shak. “Some three months since, or thereabout.” Suckling.
3. Concerning that; about that. [R.] “What will ye dine? I will go thereabout.” Chaucer. “They were much perplexed thereabout.” Luke xxiv. 4.