there

Meanings

Adverb

• In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here).
• In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
• To or into that place; thither.
• Where, there where, in which place.
• In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below.

Noun

• That place.
• That status; that position.

Pronoun

• That.

Related

Similar words

• over there, away there ; thither ; yonder

Origin

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