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thither

adv
/ˈðɪðə/UK/ˈðɪðɚ/US

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.

  1. inherited from *þadrê✻
  2. inherited from þider
  3. inherited from thider

Definitions

  1. 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; […]

  2. To that point, end, or result.

    • The argument tended thither.

  3. The farther, the other and more distant.

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

The neighborhood

Derived

hither and thither, hither, thither and yon, thitherside, thitherto, thitherward

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for thither. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA