Meaning & use
thither
An old-fashioned word meaning 'to or toward that place', the opposite of hither.
See it in a sentence
The old map marked a path and simply noted, 'thither lies the ruined tower.'
He wandered hither and thither through the market with no clear destination.
A note on using this word
Almost always archaic or literary today, often paired with 'hither' in the fixed phrase 'hither and thither.'
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