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adverb

There adv.

In or at that place. "(They) there left me and my man, both bound together." "The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. "Darkness there might well seem twilight here."

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."

To or into that place; thither. "The rarest that e'er came there." 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. "A knight there was, and that a worthy man." "There is a path which no fowl knoweth." "Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced." "There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue." Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc. Note: There was formerly used in the sense of where. "Spend their good there it is reasonable."

Here and there, in one place and another.

Synonyms: See Thither.

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... He wanted to play, but Captain Putnam would not allow it, and the bully went off by himself, up the lake-shore, where he sat down on a rock to smoke cigarettes and brood over his troubles. While he sat there he took from his pocket a letter and read ...

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... oft at summer midnight, there, When all is hushed and voiceless, and the air, Sweet, soothing minstrel of the viewless hand, Swells rippling through the aged trees, that stand With their broad boughs above the wave depending, With the low gurgle of the waters blending ...

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... message to say that he wished us to stop at his village on our way down. He came on board on our arrival there with a handsome present, and said that his young people had dissuaded him from visiting us before; but now he was determined to see what every one else was seeing. A bald square-headed man, who had ...

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