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

* In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. "Darkness there might well seem twilight here." Milton.

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

The rarest that e'er came there. Shak.

* 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.

* There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc.

* 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.