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–adverb

1.	Also, thith·er·ward Audio Help [thith-er-werd, thith-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, thith·er·wards. to or toward that place or point; there.

–adjective

2.	on the farther or other side or in the direction away from the person speaking; farther; more remote.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME, var. of ME thider, OE, alter. of thæder (i from hider hither); akin to ON thathra there, Goth thathro thence, Skt tátra there, thither

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thith·er Audio Help   (thĭth'ər, thĭth'-) Pronunciation Key
adv.   To or toward that place; in that direction; there: running hither and thither.

adj.   Located or being on the more distant side; farther: the thither side of the pond.

[Middle English, from Old English thider; see to- in Indo-European roots.]

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O.E. þider "to or toward that place," altered (by infl. of its opposite hider) of earlier þæder "to that place," from P.Gmc. *thadra- (cf. O.N. þaðra "there"), from *tha (see that) + PIE suffix denoting motion toward (cf. Goth. -dre, Skt. -tra). The medial -th- developed in M.E. but was rare before 1525 (cf. gather, murder, burden).

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thither
adverb
to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there around noon!" [syn: there] [ant: here]

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Thither

Here\, adv. [OE. her, AS. h?r; akin to OS. h?r, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. h?r, Dan. her, Sw. h["a]r; fr. root of E. he. See He.]

1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there.

He is not here, for he is risen. --Matt. xxviii. 6.

2. In the present life or state.

Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.

3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See Thither.

Here comes Virgil. --B. Jonson.

Thou led'st me here. --Byron.

4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now.

The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise. --Warren.

Note: Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in drinking healths. "Here's [a health] to thee, Dick." --Cowley.

Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed manner; irregularly. "Footsteps here and there." --Longfellow.

It is neither, here nor there, it is neither in this place nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence, it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense. --Shak.

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Thither

There\, adv. [OE. ther, AS. [eth][=ae]r; akin to D. daar, G. da, OHG. d[=a]r, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. [thorn]ar, Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. [root]184. See That, pron.]

1. In or at that place. "[They] there left me and my man, both bound together." --Shak.

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. --Ge. ii. 8.

Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. "Darkness there might well seem twilight here." --Milton.

2. In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech.

The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. --Shak.

3. To or into that place; thither.

The rarest that e'er came there. --Shak.

Note: There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling the attention to something, especially to something distant; as, there, there! see there! look there! There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject.

A knight there was, and that a worthy man. --Chaucer.

There is a path which no fowl knoweth. --Job xxviii. 7.

Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced. --Locke.

There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue. --Suckling.

Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc.

Note: There was formerly used in the sense of where.

Spend their good there it is reasonable. --Chaucer.

Here and there, in one place and another.

Syn: See Thither.

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