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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

there're en · X

Pronunciation

  • (UK)
  • /ˈðɛɹɚ/ (US)
  • /ˈðɛəˌɹə(ɹ)/ (UK)

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction) Contraction of there are.
    alt of there are
    • There're a few blacks and Hispanics in town, but you somehow don't notice them. 1988, Hillary Waugh, A Death in a Town, page 166:
    • No, my prince. It's less than truthful. There are princes among men. There're men endowed with a special quality. It’s a quality for which they are loved—it may be by those who scarcely know them. As you were loved in Navarre. 1974, Philip Freund, “Charles IV”, in More Off-Broadway Plays, page 34:

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