Thither
Thither , adverb
[Old English thider, Anglo-Saxon eider; akin to English that; compare Icelandic þaera there, Gothic þaþrō thence. See That, and The.]
1.
To that place; -- opposed to hither.
This city is near;... O, let me escape thither.
Where I am, thither ye can not come.
2.
To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.
Collocations (1)
Hither and thither , to this place and to that; one way and another.
Thither , adjective
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