THITHER

there, thither

(adverb) to or toward that place; away from the speaker; “go there around noon!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adverb

thither (not comparable)

(chiefly, literary or legal, dated) To that place.

(dated) To that point, end, or result.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• thence

Adjective

thither (not comparable)

(archaic) The farther, the other and more distant.

Synonyms

• See farther

Source: Wiktionary

Thith"er, adv. Etym: [OE. thider, AS. edhider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þaedhra there, Goth. þaþro thence. See That, and The.]

1. To that place; -- opposed to Ant: 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. Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.

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, a.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition