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Thither

//ˈðɪðə// adj, adv

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    The farther, the other and more distant. archaic, no-comparative

    "the thither side of life, that is to say, afterlife"

Adverb
  1. 1
    To that place. archaic, literary, not-comparable

    "Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither […]"

  2. 2
    To that point, end, or result. archaic, not-comparable

    "The argument tended thither."

Adverb
  1. 1
    to or toward that place; away from the speaker wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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