Meaning & use

thither

adverb·Advanced

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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