Thither Definition

thĭthər, thĭth-
adverb
To or toward that place; there.
Webster's New World
(chiefly literary or law, dated) To that place.
Wiktionary
(dated) To that point, end, or result.
The argument tended thither.
Wiktionary
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adjective
On or toward that side; farther.
Webster's New World

Origin of Thither

  • Middle English from Old English thider to- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old English þider.

    From Wiktionary

Thither Sentence Examples

  • He was educated at the Ecole Normale, and returned thither as director of studies in 1838, after some years spent in provincial schoolmasterships.

  • Thither he attracted the poorer classes by the simplicity of his life and teaching.

  • Tampa grew rapidly after the completion of the first railway thither in 1884, and in 1886 it was chartered as a city and became a port of entry.

  • When, therefore, in 1850, Mr Stowe was elected to a professorship in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and removed his family thither, Mrs Stowe was prepared for the great work which came to her, bit by bit, as a religious message which she must deliver.

  • Upon its final acceptance as the capital, there was some activity in land speculation, but Indianapolis had only 600 inhabitants and a single street when the seat of government was removed thither in 1824.

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