Meaning & use
hither
To or toward this place; here, used in older or formal English.
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The old sign read, 'Come hither, weary traveler, and rest awhile.'
He wandered hither and thither through the market without any real plan.
A note on using this word
Hither survives mainly in the fixed phrase 'hither and thither' and in deliberately archaic or literary writing.
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