there'll

/ðɛəɹl/UK/ðɛəl/UK/ðɛl/US/ðɛɹl/

A form of there — In or at a place or location (stated, implied or otherwise indicated) that is perceived to be away from, or at a relative distance from, the speaker (compare here).

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Meanings

contraction
  1. abbreviationcolloquialcontractionContraction of there + will.

    There'll be hell to pay if you don't.

    2 more examples

    “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. […]”

    1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

    “Most of this is bound to come out. There'll be a public scandal”

    1945, J. B. Priestley, chapter 3, in An Inspector Calls

Rhymes & wordplay

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they'll
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APA

there'll. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/there'll

MLA

“there'll.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/there'll. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “there'll,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/there'll.

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