thither

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
11
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈðɪðə/
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/ˈðɪðə/ · /ˈθɪðə/ · /ˈðɪðɚ/ · /ˈθɪðɚ/

Definition of thither

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (archaic, literary, not-comparable)To that place.
    “Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither […]”
    “[…] Eleutherius, who thinking himself concern'd, because he brought me thither […]”
    “[A]ll thoſe goods, and a great deal of money in ſpecie, is return'd hither for and in ballance of our ovvn manufactures and merchandizes exported thither; […]”
    “But the road left the river again; there were certainly twistings and turnings, as the old woman had said, for at one moment it wound hither and the next thither, and at some places it was almost imperceptible.”
    “And there rises a shining palace whose crystal glittering roof is seen by mariners who traverse the extensive sea in barks built expressly for that purpose, and thither come all herds and fatlings and firstfruits of that land for O'Connell Fitzsimon takes toll of them, a chieftain descended from chieftains.”
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adv

  1. (archaic, literary, not-comparable)To that place.
    “Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither […]”
    “[…] Eleutherius, who thinking himself concern'd, because he brought me thither […]”
    “[A]ll thoſe goods, and a great deal of money in ſpecie, is return'd hither for and in ballance of our ovvn manufactures and merchandizes exported thither; […]”
    “But the road left the river again; there were certainly twistings and turnings, as the old woman had said, for at one moment it wound hither and the next thither, and at some places it was almost imperceptible.”
    “And there rises a shining palace whose crystal glittering roof is seen by mariners who traverse the extensive sea in barks built expressly for that purpose, and thither come all herds and fatlings and firstfruits of that land for O'Connell Fitzsimon takes toll of them, a chieftain descended from chieftains.”
  2. (archaic, not-comparable)To that point, end, or result.
    “The argument tended thither.”

adj

  1. (archaic, no-comparative)The farther, the other and more distant.
    “the thither side of life, that is to say, afterlife”

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Etymology

From Middle English thider, from Old English þider, an alteration (probably by analogy with hider (“hither”)) of earlier þæder (“to there”), from Proto-Germanic *þadrê.

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