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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
there
adv
  1. in or at that place; "they have lived there for years"; "it's not there"; "that man there"
    Synonym(s): there, at that place, in that location
    Antonym(s): here
  2. in that matter; "I agree with you there"
    Synonym(s): there, in that respect, on that point
  3. to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there around noon!"
    Synonym(s): there, thither
    Antonym(s): here, hither
n
  1. a location other than here; that place; "you can take it from there"
    Antonym(s): here
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   There \There\, adv. [OE. ther, AS. [eb][d6]r; akin to D. daar,
      G. da, OHG. d[be]r, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. [ed]ar,
      Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. [fb]184. See {That}, pron.]
      1. In or at that place. [bd][They] there left me and my man,
            both bound together.[b8] --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. [bd]Darkness there might well seem
               twilight here.[b8] --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}.
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