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thither

Syllables: thi·therUK/ˈðɪðə//ˈðɪðɚ/

thither adverb: to that place.

Adverb

thither (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, literary) To that place.
    • Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 19:20
    • […] Eleutherius, who thinking himself concern'd, because he brought me thither […]1661, Robert Boyle, “Physiological Considerations Touching the Experiments Wont to be Employed to Evince either the IV Peripatetick Elements, or the III Chymical Principls of Mixt Bodies. Part of the...
  2. (archaic) To that point, end, or result.
    • The argument tended thither.

Adjective

thither (no comparative, superlative thithermost)

  1. (archaic, no-comparative) The farther, the other and more distant.
    • the thither side of life, that is to say, afterlife
    Synonyms:
    farther

thither meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

thither in Hindi

to that place
उधर udhar

thither in Tamil

to that place
அங்கு aṅku

thither in Urdu

to that place
اُدَھر udhar

thither in Bengali

সেখানে, ওখানে
More languagesFewer languages
thither in Sanskrit
तत्र tátra
thither in Pashto
هلته halta, هورې hure
thither in Arabic
إِلَى هُنَاك ʔilā hunāk
thither in Indonesian
ke situ, ke sana
thither in Vietnamese
đằng kia

Examples of thither in a sentence

  • Therefore they are not called thither to be ciphers in augurism, or tell clocks.
  • We’ve now spent eight years watching Republican congressmen scurrying hither and thither brandishing pitchforks, outraged at the latest whiff of terrorist fist-bumpery.
  • “Which means, if the term is not familiar to you, a chap who flits hither and thither pinching everything he can lay his hands on.”

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Synonyms of thither

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of thither

Forms of thither

superlativethithermost

Origin of thither

From Middle English thider, from Old English þider, an alteration (probably by analogy with hider (“hither”)) of earlier þæder (“to there”), from Proto-Germanic *þadrê.

Words formed from thither

Words that rhyme with thither

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Questions about thither

What does thither mean?
Thither means to that place.
What is thither in Hindi?
Thither in Hindi is उधर (udhar). See Thither meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is thither?
Thither can be an adverb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce thither?
Thither is pronounced /ˈðɪðə/ (UK).

Words near thither in the dictionary

  1. thistlier
  2. thistliest
  3. thistlish
  4. thistly
  5. thiswise
  6. thither
  7. thither-ward
  8. thithermost
  9. thitherside
  10. thitherto
  11. thitherward

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thither (page history and authors); thither (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); तत्र (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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