there

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   In or at that place, away from the speaker.

   They have lived there for many years.

2. 2
   adv

   To that place.

   I have never been to Paris, but I would love to go there.

3. 3
   adv

   In that matter or on that point.

   You think it is too expensive, and I agree with you there.

4. 4
   intj

   Used to comfort someone or to show that something is finished.

   There, there. Everything is going to be all right.

Common collocations

• get there Verb + adverb

From Middle English there, ther, thare, thar, thore, from Old English þēr, þǣr, þār (“there; at that place”), from Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“at that place; there”), from Proto-Indo-European *tó-r (“there”), from demonstrative pronominal base *to- (“the, that”) + adverbial suffix *-r. Cognate with Scots thar, thair (“there”), North Frisian dear, deer, där (“there”), Saterland Frisian deer (“there”), West Frisian dêr (“there”), Dutch daar (“there”), Low German dar (“there”), German da, dar- (“there”), Danish der (“there”), Norwegian der (“there”), Swedish där (“there”)…

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