Thereadverb
(location) In a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) at some distance from the speaker (compare here).
Whereconjunction
While on the contrary; although; whereas.
‘Where Susy has trouble coloring inside the lines, Johnny has already mastered shading.’;
Thereadverb
(figuratively) In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place.
‘He did not stop there, but continued his speech.’; ‘They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there.’;
Whereconjunction
At or in which place or situation.
‘He is looking for a house where he can have a complete office.’; ‘I've forgotten where I was in this book, but it was probably around chapter four.’;
Thereadverb
(location) To or into that place; thither.
Whereconjunction
To which place or situation.
‘The snowbirds travel where it is warm.’;
Thereadverb
(obsolete) Where, there where, in which place.
Whereconjunction
Wherever.
‘Their job is to go where they are called.’;
Thereadverb
In existence or in this world; see pronoun section below.
Whereconjunction
(legal) In a position, case, etc., in which.
‘Where no provision under this Act is applicable, the case shall be decided in accordance with the customary practices.’;
Thereinterjection
Used to offer encouragement or sympathy.
‘There, there. Everything is going to turn out all right.’;
Whereadverb
Interrogative adverb, used in either a direct or indirect question: at what place; to what place; what place.
‘Where are you?’; ‘Where are you going?’; ‘He asked where I grew up.’;
Thereinterjection
Used to express victory or completion.
‘There! That knot should hold.’;
Whereadverb
With the preposition from
‘Where did you come from?’;
Therenoun
That place.
Whereadverb
In what situation.
‘Where would we be without our parents?’;
Therenoun
That status; that position.
‘You get it ready; I'll take it from there.’;
Whereadverb
(relative) At which, on which.
‘That is the place where we first met.’;
Therepronoun
Used as an expletive subject of be in its sense of “exist”, with the semantic, usually indefinite subject being postponed or (occasionally) implied.
‘There are two apples on the table. [=Two apples are on the table.]’; ‘There is no way to do it. [=No way to do it exists.]’; ‘Is there an answer? [=Does an answer exist?]’; ‘No, there isn't. [=No, one doesn't exist.]’;
Wherepronoun
The place in which.
‘He lives within five miles of where he was born.’;
Therepronoun
Used with other intransitive verbs of existence, in the same sense, or with other intransitive verbs, adding a sense of existence.
‘If x is a positive number, then there exists [=there is] a positive number y less than x.’; ‘There remain several problems with this approach. [=Several problems remain with this approach.]’; ‘Once upon a time, in a now-forgotten kingdom, there lived a woodsman with his wife. [=There was a woodsman, who lived with his wife.]’; ‘There arose a great wind out of the east. [=There was now a great wind, arising in the east.]’;
Wherenoun
The place in which something happens.
‘A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where, the why and the how.’; ‘Finding the nymph asleep in secret where. — Spenser.’;
Therepronoun
Used with other verbs, when raised.
‘There seems to be some difficulty with the papers. [=It seems that there is some difficulty with the papers.]’; ‘I expected there to be a simpler solution. [=I expected that there would be a simpler solution.]’; ‘There are beginning to be complications. [=It's beginning to be the case that there are complications.]’;
Whereadverb
At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; - used interrogatively.
‘God called unto Adam, . . . Where art thou?’;
Therepronoun
That.
‘therefor, thereat, thereunder’;
Whereadverb
At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; - used relatively.
‘She visited that place where first she was so happy.’; ‘Where I thought the remnant of mine ageShould have been cherished by her childlike duty.’; ‘Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.’; ‘But where he rode one mile, the dwarf ran four.’;
Therepronoun
(colloquial) Used to replace an unknown name, principally in greetings and farewells
‘Hi there, young fellow.''’;
Whereadverb
To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; - used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going?
‘But where does this tend?’; ‘Lodged in sunny cleft,Where the gold breezes come not.’; ‘The star . . . stood over where the young child was.’; ‘The Son of man hath not where to lay his head.’; ‘Within about twenty paces of where we were.’; ‘Where did the minstrels come from?’;
Theredeterminer
misspelling of their
Whereconjunction
Whereas.
‘And flight and die is death destroying death;Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.’;
Thereadverb
In or at that place.
‘The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.’;
Wherenoun
Place; situation.
‘Finding the nymph asleep in secret where.’;
Thereadverb
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 friendAnd turns it to exile; there art thou happy.’;
Whereadverb
in or at or to what place;
‘I know where he is’; ‘use it wherever necessary’;
Thereadverb
To or into that place; thither.
‘The rarest that e'er came there.’; ‘A knight there was, and that a worthy man.’; ‘There is a path which no fowl knoweth.’; ‘Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced.’; ‘There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue.’; ‘Spend their good there it is reasonable.’;
Therenoun
a location other than here; that place;
‘you can take it from there’;
Thereadverb
in or at that place;
‘they have lived there for years’; ‘it's not there’; ‘that man [who is] there’;
Thereadverb
in that matter;
‘I agree with you there’;
Thereadverb
to or toward that place; away from the speaker;
‘go there around noon!’;
