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Definition: There |
ThereAdverb1. In or at that place; "they have lived there for years"; "it's not there"; "that man 2. In that matter; "I agree with you there". 3. To or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there around noon!". Noun1. A location other than here; that place; "you can take it from there". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "there" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: ThereSynonyms: at that place (adv), in that location (adv), in that respect (adv), on that point (adv), thither (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: here (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Presence | Adverb: here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home, afield; here there and everywhere; (space); in presence of, before; under the eyes of, under the nose of; in the face of; in propria persona. |
Situation | Adverb: in situ, in loco; here and there, passim; hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts; in place, here, there. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: There |
| English words defined with "there": here and there. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "there": All there. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "there": Wood-sere. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) The world changes, we do not, there lies the irony that finally kills us. (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice) There were other cries, too. Diffrent from those full with fear and lonelyness (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) There are things you know for sure (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) | |
Lyrics | I hope 2 find her there gotta make some eye contact she's not the kind to stare (There She Goes; performing artist: Babyface) And I wasn't there when you were happy (I'll Be There For You; performing artist: Bon Jovi) There always be a place (There You'll Be; performing artist: Faith Hill) He's never there, never all there (Never all there; performing artist: General Public) There you go again, complanin' (There It Is; performing artist: Ginuwine) | |
Clever | There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. (references; author: Mark Twain) I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. (references; author: Woody Allen) Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus? (references; author: unknown) Man who drive like hell bound to get there. (references; author: unknown) Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | I cannot bear to see a bear bear down upon a hare. When bare of hair he strips the hare, right there I cry, "Forbear! (references; author: unknown) There are free fleas for all the loyal royalty. (references; author: unknown) There goes one tough top cop! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Getting There (2002) Out There (2003) Is There Sex After Marriage? (1974) There Is No 13 (1974) And Then There Were None (1974) | |
Song Titles | I'll Take You There (performing artist: General Public) There It Is (performing artist: Ginuwine) Hang On In There Baby (performing artist: Johnny Bristol) Somewhere Out There (performing artist: Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram) I'm Already There (performing artist: Lonestar) | |
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The photo shows the procedure of photodynamic therapy. In this therapy, patients are injected with a light-activated drug called a photosensitizer which makes cells in their body sensitive to light. The drug is selectively retained by cancer cells as compared with normal tissue. Doctors then use fiber-optic probes to expose the cancer to laser light. This activates the photosensitizer and produces a toxic reaction that destroys the tumor without irreparably damaging the surrounding normal cells There is a close-up of just the hands. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: John Crawford (photographer). | A female physician takes the blood pressure of a black woman patient. There is also a head shot of the patient. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | ||
![]() | Plasmodium species, mature schizont. Little cytoplasm is visible around the chromated masses of merozoites. Also there is a growing trophozoite and three presegmenters as well as one white blood cell. Malaria parasite. Credit: CDC. | The immature trophozoite (ring stage) of the P. malariae parasite has a sturdy cytoplasm. There is usually only one ring per cell with one large chromatin dot, but in this case there are two dots. Credit: CDC. | |
![]() | "Ellipsoid Pulsate" (movie) by Joe Seale. There is also a hi-res version. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info. | There are stars with planets. Stars with companion stars. Stars with pancake-shaped disks of ... Credit: NASA. | |
It's a very big universe out there, and an astronomer's work is never done when it comes to ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Base camp for Mount Elbert observations The party got a reprieve as there was more funding to finish some Colorado work Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | |
![]() | Turning in the government property when it looked like there were no more funds Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Pound net posts are taken over by osprey, who built their home there. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Fire was there" by Janos Rusiczki Commentary: "Those who made this made it very nicely..." | "Let there be light." by Elle Jiang Commentary: "Sun breaking out at Virginia's battlegrounds." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Aesop | In union there is strength. |
Francis Bacon | In charity there is no excess. |
Gabriel Heatter | There is good news tonight. |
George Leigh Mallory | Because it's there. |
Gustave Flaubert | In art there is nothing without form. |
Horace | There is measure in all things. |
Robert Louis Stevenson | There is but one art, to omit. |
Sophocles | For the dead there are no more toils. |
William Shakespeare | In delay there lies no plenty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | We will not for the future grant to anyone license to take an aid from his own free tenants, except to ransom his person, to make his eldest son a knight, and once to marry his eldest daughter; and on each of these occasions there shall be levied only a reasonable aid. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | To which in the state of nature there are many things wanting. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2038 | Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Here and there the contest breaks out into riots. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | There will be established in the two ports free zones in conformity with Part XII (Ports, Waterways and Railways) of the present Treaty. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | There is enough for all. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In this Court, there have been six cases involving the "separate but equal" doctrine in the field of public education. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Winnie the Pooh | A.A. Milne | The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there. |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Had you witnessed my behaviour there, I can hardly suppose you would ever have thought well of me again |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | But there was something in her look which silenced him. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Oh, he was early there. |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There is nothing at all to fear on the side of the populace of the capital |
The Hobbit: or There and Back Again | J.R.R. Tolkien | In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It would be better to be in the studyhall than out there in the cold |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | At Crosby House, there shall you find us both |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Yes. There are two main types. (references) | |
How often the procedure is done there. (references) | ||
If your health plan will cover your care there. (references) | ||
Business | There around 18,000 hospitals in Mexico. (references) | |
Thus there are no privatization opportunities. (references) | ||
At present there are 25 members in the committee. (references) | ||
Children | Indonesia | Usually, they are taken outside the city and left there. (references) |
Mauritania | Local NGO's estimate that there are more than 250 street children. (references) | |
Russia | Reportedly there are approximately 3,000 Afghan orphans in the country. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Armenia | There is foreign language programming. (references) |
Jordan | There currently are 25 licensed political parties. (references) | |
Indonesia | In Kalimantan, there were 60,777 displaced Madurese. (references) | |
Discrimination | Saudi Arabia | There is legal and systemic discrimination based on sex and religion. (references) |
Congo | Ethnic and regional differences continued; however, there was no organized civil violence during the year. (references) | |
Namibia | Nujoma also declared that homosexuals would not be allowed to enter the country; however, there were no reports of such incidents. (references) | |
Economic History | Burkina Faso | In 2001, there are 80 volunteers. (references) |
Spain | There is zero duty on medical devices. (references) | |
Turkey | In Turkey, there are 16 national TV channels. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nepal | Judges decide cases; there is no jury system. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | The imam had not confessed and there were no witnesses. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | All charges were dropped in July, and there was no trial. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Ecuador | Protesters blocked roads throughout the country, and there were several violent confrontations. (references) |
Argentina | The INAI estimates that there are approximately 700,000 indigenous persons, most of whom reside in rural areas. (references) | |
Dominica | Carib Indians over the age of 18 who reside there are eligible to vote for the Chief and eight members of the Council of Advisors. (references) | |
Minorities | Ghana | Seven people reportedly were injured; there were no arrests. (references) |
Comoros | This campaign resulted in threats, but there were no reports of violence. (references) | |
Indonesia | The regional autonomy plan in Aceh recognizes Islamic law as the local law there. (references) | |
Political Economy | SWITZERLAND | It is highly unlikely that there are any exports. (references) |
Uzbekistan | There is effective civilian control over the military. (references) | |
UKRAINE | Previously there had been 20 categories of excisable goods. (references) | |
Political Rights | Samoa | Matai are selected by family agreement; there is no age qualification. (references) |
Colombia | The report also stated that there is 1 female governor and 75 female mayors. (references) | |
Haiti | Three of the 82 deputies are women, and there are 6 women among the 27 senators. (references) | |
Trade | Guatemala | To-date, there have been no equity issues. (references) |
Mexico | For some products there is a lack of test laboratories. (references) | |
Zambia | Free Trade Zones/Warehouses: There are no free trade zones. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | In January 2001, there was an attempted coup. (references) |
Colombia | Hotels: There is a wide variety of hotels in Colombia. (references) | |
Colombia | Taxis: There is taxi service available at all major hotels. (references) | |
Women | Syria | Rape is a felony; however, there are no laws against spousal rape. (references) |
Afghanistan | In most regions, there was less than 1 physician per 10,000 persons. (references) | |
Cambodia | The NGO also estimated that there are up to 55,000 sex workers in the country. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Korea | By year's end there had been no further progress. (references) |
Monaco | Strikes are rare, and there were none during the year. (references) | |
Pakistan | As of year's end, there was no report on the return of the boys. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HASH, x. There is no definition for this word -- nobody knows what hash is. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Alexander Benedetto | William is lying there sleeping in the guest house there. We go back in. We sit down, watch a little TV, unwind a little bit, go to sleep. |
Art Linkletter | Nope. I love the lecture platform. I love the question and answers. It's there. You're walking on a rope again. |
Dennis Miller | Disparity among nations has been around forever, but only now is there a push to do something about it. |
Jesse Ventura | Taxes were never raised on my watch. In four years, there was never a tax raise, they were all lowered. |
Joe Esposito | Graceland. Place he always to bought it for his mother. That was very important to him. Beautiful place. Nice place. He loved being there. |
Mary Tyler Moore | There are a few people like that, but I'm not one of them. I find it very difficult. But I'm never one to shirk a challenge. |
Maureen O'Hara | First marriage was never consummated. I was married. I was pushed into it. I went from there to the boat for the United States of America. |
Rush Limbaugh | So there you have it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | To enforce upon the Indians the observance of justice it is indispensable that there shall be competent means of rendering justice to them. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Besides those of colour, figure, and hair, there are other physical distinctions proving a difference of race. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Of course there are cases of individual hardship in retention of personnel in the service. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Thus across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | For every generation, there is a destiny. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Well, at last there is agreement that we can't spend ourselves rich. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Now let me start with my generation, with the grandparents out there. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let our progress there not mask the peril that remains. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Deep in the American character, there is honor, and it is stronger than cynicism. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "There" is generally used as a -- approximately 73.01% of the time. "There" is used about 327,621 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| 73.01% | 239,206 | 46 | |
| Adverb (general) | 26.98% | 88,396 | 103 |
| Total | 100.00% | 327,621 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "there". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hinnom | N/A | Biblical | There they are |
| Jehovah-shammah | N/A | Biblical | The Lord is there |
| Samson | N/A | Biblical | There the second time |
| Shamsherai | N/A | Biblical | There a singer or conqueror |
| Sam | N/A | English | There the second time |
| Sampson | N/A | English | There the second time |
| Sansone | N/A | Italian | There the second time |
| Shimshon | N/A | Jewish | There the second time |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "there": across there ♦ all there ♦ along there ♦ and there the matter ended ♦ around there ♦ away over there ♦ back there ♦ be not all there ♦ be still there ♦ be there ♦ be there on the stroke ♦ carry there ♦ down there ♦ down there in the valley ♦ down to there ♦ for every action there is a reaction equal in force and opposite in direction ♦ from there ♦ from there on ♦ get there ♦ go there ♦ have no business there ♦ he is not all there ♦ here and there ♦ here there and everywhere ♦ he's all there ♦ how much there was to be seen! ♦ i dare say he'll be there ♦ if there was not ♦ in there ♦ is there ..? ♦ is there enough food to go round? ♦ is there room for me? ♦ is there room? ♦ is there smth. wrong with it? ♦ It is neither here nor there ♦ it's over there ♦ it's under there ♦ just there ♦ lead there ♦ let there be ♦ near there ♦ neither here nor there ♦ none of us was there ♦ not all there ♦ on the way there ♦ once upon a time there was ♦ once upon a time there was a king ♦ out there ♦ over there ♦ rush there ♦ sometimes here sometimes there ♦ take there ♦ that is neither here nor there ♦ that over there ♦ then and there ♦ there and back ♦ there appears to be ♦ there are ♦ there are no rooms left ♦ there being times when ♦ there goes the bell! ♦ there goes! ♦ there he goes! ♦ there he is! ♦ there in ♦ there is ♦ there is a fly in the ointment ♦ there is a limit ♦ there is a plane today to ♦ there is a rumor abroad ♦ there is a rumour abroad ♦ there is a snag ♦ there is a threat of a rain ♦ there is a threat of rain ♦ there is a time for everything ♦ there is an end of it! ♦ there is an end to everything ♦ there is every appearance that ♦ there is need for ♦ there is no ♦ there is no accounting for tastes ♦ there is no comparison ♦ there is no connection between ♦ there is no doubt about ♦ there is no doubt whatever ♦ there is no god but god ♦ there is no harm done ♦ there is no hurry ♦ there is no knowing ♦ there is no limit to his impudence ♦ there is no need ♦ there is no need for smth. ♦ there is no need to do smth. ♦ there is no objection ♦ there is no one like me ♦ there is no other ♦ there is no point in doing that ♦ there is no question about that ♦ there is no question of ♦ there is no reason to doubt his statement ♦ there is no room. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "there": There-anent, there-approach, there-but, there-fore, there-has, there-he, there-i, there-on, there-opening, there-room, there-set, there-was, there-would. | |
Ending with "there": always-there, barely-there, be-there, equipment-there, film-there, four-there, mahogany-there, marie-there, night-there, off-there, out-there, right-there, role-there, splendid-there, spot-there, stuff-there, this-there, thoroughly-there, Th-th-there, war-there, was-there, well-here-and-i-hope-you-are-well-there. | |
Containing "there": been-there-before, but-for-the-grace-of-bevan-there-go-i, got-there-first, if-you-get-there-before-me-go-in-and-get-on-with-something, was-there-a-mr-qualtrough, was-there-something-else. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "there"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | daar (at, at that place, over there, yon, yonder). (various references) | |
Albanian | aty (at that place, over there, therein, thither, thitherward, yon, yonder), atje (at that place, over there, thither, yon, yonder). (various references) | |
Arabic | ثمة (there is), يوجد هنا, هناك (thither, yon, yonder), هنالك (there is, yon, yonder), هذا (it, such, that, this), بهناك. (various references) | |
Basque | han. (various references) | |
Breton | n'eus (there is not). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тук (here, herein, round), там (thereabout, thereabouts, thereat, therein), по този въпрос (here), по този пункт (here). (various references) | |
Catalan | hi. (various references) | |
Chinese | 那里 (Where), 那裡 (that place), 那兒 (where). (various references) | |
Croatian | tamo. (various references) | |
Czech | tam (along there, in that place, therein, thither). (various references) | |
Danish | did (that way, thither, yonder), derhen (that way, thither, yonder), der (which). (various references) | |
Dutch | er (at that place, it, no translation, over there, untranslated, yon, yonder), daar (as, at that place, because, for, for the reason that, it, over there, since, yon, yonder), ginds (at that place, over there, yon, yonder), daarginds (at that place, over there, yon, yonder), aldaar (at that place, over there, yon, yonder). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tie (over there, yonder). (various references) | |
Faeroese | har (at that place, over there, yon, yonder), hagar (that way, thither, yonder). (various references) | |
Farsi | انجا (Thither, Yonder), ان مکان , دراین موضوع , دراین جا, درانجا (Therein), به انجا (Thither), بدانجا. (various references) | |
Finnish | sinne (that way, thither, yonder), siellä (at that place, over there, yon, yonder). (various references) | |
Flemish | er, daar. (various references) | |
French | y (at that place, over there), là (at that place, over there, thither). (various references) | |
French Canadian | y, n'y. (various references) | |
Frisian | er (at that place, he, over there, yon, yonder), dêre (at that place, over there, yon, yonder), dêr (at that place, over there, yon, yonder). (various references) | |
Galician | alá. (various references) | |
German | dorthin (that way, thither, yonder), dort (at that place, over there, therein, yon, yonder), da (as, at that, at that place, because, behold, for, for the reason that, here, here are, here is, here you are, in, inasmuch as, look, over there, since, so, that, then, to that, yon, yonder), dahin (away, gone, here, over, that way, then, thither, yonder). (various references) | |
Greek | εκεί (on site, thereto). (various references) | |
Guarani | upépe. (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | gen (get, have, there is). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | aty (at that place, over there, yon, yonder), atje (at that place, over there, yon, yonder), andej (that way, thither, yonder). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להלן (afterwards, as follows, below, following), שמה (desolation, destruction, devastation, thither), שם (denomination, name, noun, reputation, repute, thither, title, yonder). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ott (at that place, on the spot, over there, over yonder, thereat, yon, yonder), oda (at that place, hark at him!, over there, thither, up, yon, yonder), amott (over there, yon, yonder). (various references) | |
Icelandic | þarna, þar (at that place, over there, yon, yonder), þangað (that way, there/to there, thither, yonder). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sana, disana. (various references) | |
Irish | ansin (then). (various references) | |
Italian | là (at, at that place, over there, that, that one, that way, the, thither, yon, yonder), vi (to you, to you all, ye, you, you all, yourself, yourselves), lì (thither, yonder), ci (c, it, ourselves, to us, us). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 彼方 (that, the other, the other side, yonder), 彼処 (genitals, over there, that place, yonder), 彼の地 (that place), 其処 (that place). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そこ (bottom, sole, that place), かなた (that, the other, the other side, yonder), かしこ (genitals, over there, that place, yonder), かのち (that place), あすこ (genitals, over there, that place, yonder), あなた (dear, lady, that, the other, the other side, yonder, you), あそこ (genitals, over there, that place, yonder), あちら (that, yonder). (various references) | |
Korean | 거기서. (various references) | |
Luganda | awo. (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | do. (various references) | |
Malagasy | teo, tao, eo, ao. (various references) | |
Manx | er hen, ayns shid, ayns shen (therein, whereinto). |