Nearby Words
adverb
1.
to or toward this place: to come hither.
adjective
2.
being on this or the closer side; nearer: the hither side of the meadow.
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Hither
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
3.
hither and thither, in various quarters; here and there: They scurried hither and thither to escape the rain.
4.
hither and yon, from here to over there, especially to a farther place; in or to a great many places: He looked hither and yon for the coin. She went hither and yon in search of an answer.
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Example Sentences
- It doesn't take long before rooms are engulfed with trains running hither and yon.
- My kids basically grew up in the back seat of the car on the way to hither any yon.
- Some gardeners might delight in an aggressive groundcover that runs all hither and yon.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
hither
O.E. hider, from P.Gmc. *khideran (cf. O.N. heðra "here," Goth. hidre "hither"), from Gmc. demonstrative base *hi- (cf. he, here). Spelling change from -d- to -th- is the same evolution seen in father (q.v.). Relation to here is the same as that of thither to there.
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