thither

Language

English

Etymology

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#THITHER Category:English terms derived from Middle English#THITHER thider, from Old English Category:English terms inherited from Old English#THITHER Category:English terms derived from Old English#THITHER þider, an alteration (probably by analogy with hider (“hither”)) of earlier þæder (“to there”), from Proto-Germanic Category:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#THITHER Category:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#THITHER *þadrê.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈðɪðə/, /ˈθɪðə/Category:English 2-syllable words#THITHER Category:English 2-syllable words#THITHER Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THITHER
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈðɪðɚ/, /ˈθɪðɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#THITHER Category:English 2-syllable words#THITHER Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#THITHER
Audio (General American): (file)
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#THITHER
Rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɪðə(ɹ)#THITHER Category:Rhymes:English/ɪðə(ɹ)/2 syllables#THITHER
Hyphenation: thi‧ther

Adverb

thither (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#THITHER Category:English adverbs#THITHER Category:English uncomparable adverbs#THITHER Category:English entries with incorrect language header#THITHER Category:Pages with entries#THITHER Category:Pages with 1 entry#THITHER

(chiefly literary Category:English literary terms#THITHER or law Category:en:Law#THITHER, archaic Category:English terms with archaic senses#THITHER) To that place.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 19:20:
  Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither […]
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- 1661, Robert Boyle, “Physiological Considerations Touching the Experiments Wont to be Employed to Evince either the IV Peripatetick Elements, or the III Chymical Principls of Mixt Bodies. Part of the First Dialogue.”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC, page 9:
  […] Eleutherius, who thinking himself concern'd, because he brought me thither […]
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- 1725 (indicated as 1726), [Daniel Defoe], “Letter XXIII. Of the Inland Trade of England, Its Magnitude, and the Great Advantage It is to the Nation in General.”, in The Complete English Tradesman, in Familiar Letters; Directing Him in All the Several Parts and Progressions of Trade. […], volume I, London: […] Charles Rivington […], →OCLC, page 390:
  [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; […]
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- 1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], translated by H. L. Brækstad, Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 280:
  But the road left the river again; there were certainly twistings and turnings, as the old woman had said, for at one moment it wound hither and the next thither, and at some places it was almost imperceptible.
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- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  And there rises a shining palace whose crystal glittering roof is seen by mariners who traverse the extensive sea in barks built expressly for that purpose, and thither come all herds and fatlings and firstfruits of that land for O'Connell Fitzsimon takes toll of them, a chieftain descended from chieftains.
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(archaic Category:English terms with archaic senses#THITHER) To that point, end, or result.
The argument tended thither.Category:English terms with usage examples#THITHER

Usage notes

Still common in the expression "hither and thither".

Synonyms

there, over there, away there; yonder (archaic or dialect)

Antonyms

thence

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

to that place

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Afrikaans: daarnatoeCategory:Terms with Afrikaans translations#THITHER
Albanian: andej (sq)Category:Terms with Albanian translations#THITHER, AseidCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#THITHER(gheg)
Arabic: إِلَى هُنَاك (ʔilā hunāk)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#THITHER
Belarusian: туды́ (tudý)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#THITHER
Bulgarian: натам (natam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#THITHER, нататък (natatǎk)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#THITHER
Chinese:
Mandarin: 到那裡 / 到那里 (dào nàlǐ)Category:Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#THITHER Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#THITHER
Czech: tam (cs)Category:Terms with Czech translations#THITHER
Danish: didCategory:Terms with Danish translations#THITHER, derhenCategory:Terms with Danish translations#THITHER
Dutch: daarheen (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#THITHER, aldaar (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#THITHER, derwaarts (nl)Category:Terms with Dutch translations#THITHER
Esperanto: tien (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#THITHER
Faroese: hagarCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#THITHER
Finnish: sinne (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#THITHER
French: là (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#THITHER, d'ici là (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#THITHER
German: dorthin (de)Category:Terms with German translations#THITHER, dahin (de)Category:Terms with German translations#THITHER
Gothic: 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳 (jaind)Category:Terms with Gothic translations#THITHER
Greek: προς τα εκεί (pros ta ekeí)Category:Terms with Greek translations#THITHER, εκείσε (ekeíse)Category:Terms with Greek translations#THITHER
Ancient Greek: ἐκεῖσε (ekeîse)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#THITHER, ἔνθα (éntha)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#THITHER, ἐκεῖ (ekeî)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#THITHER (Koine)
Hebrew: שמה (he) (sháma)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#THITHER, לשם (he) (l'shám)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#THITHER
Hindi: उधर (hi) (udhar)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#THITHER
Hungarian: oda (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#THITHER
Icelandic: þangað (is)Category:Terms with Icelandic translations#THITHER
Ido: adibe (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#THITHER
Indonesian: (less distant) ke situCategory:Terms with Indonesian translations#THITHER, (more distant) ke sana (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#THITHER
Irish: sallCategory:Terms with Irish translations#THITHER, anonnCategory:Terms with Irish translations#THITHER
Japanese: そこへ (ja) (soko e)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#THITHER, あそこへ (ja) (asoko e)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#THITHER
Korean: 저쪽으로 (ko) (jeojjog-euro)Category:Terms with Korean translations#THITHER
Latin: illūcCategory:Terms with Latin translations#THITHER, eodem (la)Category:Terms with Latin translations#THITHER
Latvian: tur (lv)Category:Terms with Latvian translations#THITHER, turpCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#THITHER
Macedonian: таму (tamu)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#THITHER, натаму (natamu)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#THITHER
Māori: ki reiraCategory:Terms with Māori translations#THITHER, atuCategory:Terms with Māori translations#THITHER
Navajo: ákǫ́ǫ́Category:Terms with Navajo translations#THITHER
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dit (no)Category:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#THITHER, dit henCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#THITHER, ditoverCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#THITHER

Nynorsk: ditCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#THITHER
Old English: þæderCategory:Terms with Old English translations#THITHER
Pashto: هلته (ps) (halta)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#THITHER, هورې (hure)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#THITHER
Polish: tam (pl)Category:Terms with Polish translations#THITHER, dotamtądCategory:Terms with Polish translations#THITHER
Portuguese: para láCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#THITHER
Quechua: jaqaymanCategory:Terms with Quechua translations#THITHER (illative)
Romanian: încolo (ro)Category:Terms with Romanian translations#THITHER
Russian: туда́ (ru) (tudá)Category:Terms with Russian translations#THITHER
Serbo-Croatian: tamo (sh)Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#THITHER, onamo (sh)Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#THITHER
Sicilian: ḍḍocuCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#THITHER
Slovak: tam (sk)Category:Terms with Slovak translations#THITHER
Spanish: por allíCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#THITHER, hacia alláCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#THITHER
Swedish: dit (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#THITHER
Tamil: அங்கு (ta) (aṅku)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#THITHER
Turkish: (less distant) şurayaCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#THITHER, (more distant) oraya (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#THITHER
Ukrainian: туди́ (tudý)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#THITHER
Urdu: ادهر (udhar)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#THITHER
Vietnamese: đằng kiaCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#THITHER, đằng kiaCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#THITHER
Yiddish: אַהין (ahin)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#THITHER
Yup'ik: yaatmunCategory:Terms with Yup'ik translations#THITHER

Adjective

thither (no comparative, superlative thithermost)Category:English lemmas#THITHER Category:English adjectives#THITHER Category:English entries with incorrect language header#THITHER Category:Pages with entries#THITHER Category:Pages with 1 entry#THITHER

(archaic Category:English terms with archaic senses#THITHER) The farther, the other and more distant.
the thither side of life, that is to say, afterlifeCategory:English terms with usage examples#THITHER

Synonyms

See farther

See also

	here	there	where
to	hither	thither	whither
from	hence	thence	whence

Category:English movement adverbs#THITHER

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