there

Other forms of there

plural

theres·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about there

What does there mean?

there means "in or at that place or location". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in there?

there has 1 syllable: there. In IPA it is /ˈðɛɹ/.

What is another word for there?

Close synonyms include thither. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of there?

The recorded antonyms are here, here, here.

Is there a common word?

there is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.