There, adv.

(12), adv. [A-S. thær, thēr, Icel. & Goth. thar, Sw. & Dan. der, D. daar, O. H. Ger. dār, thār, dāra, dara, M. H. Ger. dā, dô, dār, N. H. Ger. da.] In that place.

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. Gen. ii. 8.

There is sometimes opposed to here.

Darkness there might well seem twilight here. Milton.

There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling the attention to something distant; as, there, there! see there! look there! There is used to begin sentences, or before a verb, without adding essentially to the meaning.

Wherever there is 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 it then has the sense of a pronoun.

Here and there, in one place and another.

Synonyms—See THITHER.