What is "there"

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.

   The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
   --Ge. ii. 8.

   Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. ``Darkness there might well seem twilight here.''
   --Milton.

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.

   The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy.
   --Shak.

3. To or into that place; thither.

   The rarest that e'er came there.
   --Shak.

   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.
   --Chaucer.

   There is a path which no fowl knoweth.
   --Job xxviii. 7.

   Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced.
   --Locke.

   There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue.
   --Suckling.

   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.
   --Chaucer.

   Here and there, in one place and another.

   Syn: See Thither.

Old English þær "in or at that place, so far as, provided that, in that respect," from Proto-Germanic *thær (cognates: Old Saxon thar, Old Frisian ther, Middle Low German dar, Middle Dutch daer, Dutch daar, Old High German dar, German da, Gothic þar, Old Norse þar), from PIE *tar- "there" (cognates: Sanskrit tar-hi "then"), from root *to- (see the) + adverbial suffix -r.\n

\nInterjectional use is recorded from 1530s, used variously to emphasize certainty, encouragement, or consolation. To have been there "had previous experience of some activity" is recorded from 1877.

adv. 1 (context location English) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (''compare here''). 2 (context figuratively English) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place. 3 (context location English) To or into that place; thither. 4 (context obsolete English) where, there where, in which place. 5 In existence or in this world; ''see pronoun section below''. interj. 1 (non-gloss definition: Used to offer encouragement or sympathy.) 2 (non-gloss definition: Used to express victory or completion.) n. 1 That place. 2 That status; that position. pron. 1 {{non-gloss definition|Used as an expletive subject of (term: be) in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.}} 2 (non-gloss definition: Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.) 3 (non-gloss definition Used with other verbs, when raise#Verb raised.) 4 (context in combination with certain prepositions no longer productive English) that. 5 (context colloquial English) (non-gloss definition: Used to replace an unknown name, principally in greetings and farewells)

1. adv. in or at that place; "they have lived there for years"; "it's not there"; "that man [who is] there" [syn: at that place, in that location] [ant: here]

2. in that matter; "I agree with you there" [syn: in that respect, on that point]

3. to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there around noon!" [syn: thither] [ant: here]

n. a location other than here; that place; "you can take it from there" [ant: here]

There may refer to:

• There (film), a 2009 Turkish film (Turkish title: Orada)
• There (virtual world)
• there, a deictic adverb in English
• there, an English pronoun used in phrases such as there is and there are or in instances that reference multiple persons' given birth name or geographic location of birth such as there names are.. or ''there birth occurred in Germany. '' per the Oxford English Dictionary c. 1789.

There is a 2009 Turkish drama film written, produced and directed by Hakkı Kurtuluş and Melik Saraçoğlu, which follows 24 hours in the life of a troubled family. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , has been screened at numerous international film festivals.

There is a 3D online virtual world created by Will Harvey and Jeffrey Ventrella. There Inc. was founded in the spring of 1998. Closed beta began in July 2001, with various stages of beta following, and ending with an October 2003 launch date. On March 9, 2010 - one week after the announcement of its closure on March 2, 2010 - There.com shut its doors to the public.

On May 18, 2011, Michael Wilson announced that There.com will be re-opening, on the There.com homepage. All previous members will have access to their old avatars.

On May 2, 2012, There reopened to the public for a monthly subscription fee.