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Etymology

Pronunciation

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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪðə(r)|-ɪðə(r)

Adverb

To that place (seldom used except in poetry or legal papers).
*1661, w:Robert Boyle|Robert Boyle, s:Sceptical Chymist|The Sceptical Chymist, p. 9:
*: ...Eleutherius, who thinking himself concern'd , because he brought me thither...

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Translations

Albanian: {{t+|sq|andej|xs=Albanian}}
Arabic: ‎الى هناك|إلَى هُنَاكَ (íla hunáːka)
Bulgarian: натам (natam), нататък (natatäk)
Croatian:
Danish: did#Danish|did, derhen
Dutch: daarheen, aldaar
Esperanto: {{t-|eo|tien|xs=Esperanto}}
Faroese: {{t-|fo|hagar|xs=Faroese}}
Finnish:
German: ,
Greek: προς τα εκεί (pros ta ekí)
Hebrew: {{t|he|שמה|tr=sháma|sc=Hebr}}, {{t|he|‎לשם|tr=l'shám|sc=Hebr}}
Hungarian:

Icelandic:
Indonesian: ke situ (less distant), ke sana (more distant)
Japanese: そこへ (sokó e), あそこへ (asokó e)
Latin: {{t|la|illuc|alt=illūc}}
Quechua: jaqayman (-man = illative case)
Russian: {{t+|ru|туда|tr=tudá|sc=Cyrl}}
Serbian: otale
Spanish: por allí, hacia allá
Swedish:
Turkish: şuraya (less distant), oraya (more distant)
Ukrainian: туди (tudi)
Vietnamese: đằng kia

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Thither \Thith"er\, adv. [OE. thider, AS. [eth]ider; akin to E.
that; cf. Icel. [thorn]a[eth]ra there, Goth.
[thorn]a[thorn]r[=o] thence. See That, and The.]
1. To that place; -- opposed to hither.
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This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither.
--Gen. xix.
20.
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Where I am, thither ye can not come. --John vii.
34.
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2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended
thither.
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Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and
another.
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Syn: There.

Usage: 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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Thither \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.
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2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of
more years than. See Hither, a. --Huxley.
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WordNet thither
adv : to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there
around noon!" [syn: there] [ant: here]