there's

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A form of there is

Meanings

contraction

alternative dere's · alternative der's · alternative dar's

  1. abbreviationcontractionContraction of there is.

    There's no arguing with him... or with her for that matter.

  2. abbreviationcontractionnonstandardContraction of there are.

    There’s some chairs in the garage, aren’t there?

    2 more examples

    Imagine there’s no countries.

    1971 October 11, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, “Imagine”, Imagine, Apple Records

    There's only two types of people in this world: the conformist API consumer and the renegade web scraper.

    2024 July 26, Fireship, “Am I going to jail for web scraping?”, in YouTube
  3. abbreviationcontractionContraction of there + has.

    There’s been an accident!

  4. abbreviationcontractionproscribedContraction of there + was.

    Yesterday, there's an accident.

  5. abbreviationcolloquialcontractionContraction of there + does.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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