THITHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thither mean? 

• THITHER (adverb)
  The adverb THITHER has 1 sense:

1. to or toward that place; away from the speaker

  Familiarity information: THITHER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THITHER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To or toward that place; away from the speaker

Synonyms:

there; thither

Context example:

go there around noon!

 Context examples 

When the faithful maiden heard of this, she grew so sad that she thought her heart would break, and she would not go thither, but the other girls came and took her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My heart was in Highbury, and my business was to get my body thither as often as might be, and with the least suspicion.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She entered the rooms on Thursday evening with feelings very different from what had attended her thither the Monday before.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Towards this home, she began on the approach of January to turn her thoughts, and thither she one day abruptly, and very unexpectedly by them, asked the elder Misses Dashwood to accompany her.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

While Admiral Croft was taking this walk with Anne, and expressing his wish of getting Captain Wentworth to Bath, Captain Wentworth was already on his way thither.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The nail I must have, and I will give it to the abbey of Beaulieu, so that all the folk in England may go thither to wonder and to pray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Finally, having improved much in health, he and his wife had returned to London, and Lady Frances had started thither in their company.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I flew thither and back, bringing the desired vessels.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So if it be that he come thither on this night he shall find me; but none other shall—until it be too late.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At such moments he even closed his eyes and allowed his body to be hurled hither and thither, willy-nilly, careless of any hurt that might thereby come to it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)