thither Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb to or toward that place; away from the speaker
    there.
    • go there around noon!

WordNet

Thith"er adverb
Etymology
OE. thider, AS. &edh;ider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þa&edh;ra there, Goth. þaþro thence. See That, and The.
Definitions
  1. To that place; -- opposed to hither.
    This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20.
    Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34.
  2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. Syn. -- There. Thither, There. Thither properly denotes motion toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I am going thither, and shall meet you there. But thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there to-morrow; we shall go there together.
Thith"er adjective
Definitions
  1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water. W. D. Howells.
  2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a. Huxley.

Webster 1913