Meaning of there's | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Contraction of there is.
   abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
2. Contraction of there are.
   abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, nonstandard
3. Contraction of there + has.
   abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
4. Contraction of there + was.
   abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction
5. Contraction of there + does.
   abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, contraction

Examples

“There’s a strange guy over there.”

“There’s far too much attention being paid to it.”

“I've made up my mind; there's no arguing with me.”

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

“Imagine there’s no countries.”

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

“There’s been an accident!”

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