From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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