thither

English

Etymology

From Old English þider.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /θɪðəɹ/, /ðɪðəɹ/, SAMPA: /TID@(r\)/, /DID@(r\)/

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  Rhymes: -ɪðə(r)

Adverb

thither (not comparable)

1. (chiefly literary or law, dated) To that place.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p. 9:

     ...Eleutherius, who thinking himself concern'd , because he brought me thither...

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12, The Cyclops:

     And there rises a shining palace whose crystal glittering roof is seen by mariners who traverse the extensive sea in barks built expressly for that purpose, and thither come all herds and fatlings and firstfruits of that land for O'Connell Fitzsimon takes toll of them, a chieftain descended from chieftains.

Related terms

• hither
• hither and thither
• hither, thither and yon
• thitherto
• whither
• thitherward

Translations

to that place

Albanian: andej (sq) Arabic: إلى هناك (ar) ('íla hunaak) Belarusian: туды (be) (tudý) Bulgarian: натам (bg) (natam), нататък (bg) (natatǎk) Chinese: Mandarin: 到那里 (zh) (dào nàlǐ) Croatian: tamo (hr) Czech: tam (cs) Danish: did (da), derhen (da) Dutch: daarheen, aldaar Esperanto: tien (eo) Faroese: hagar (fo) Finnish: sinne (fi) French: là (fr) German: dorthin (de), dahin (de) Greek: προς τα εκεί (el) (pros ta ekí) Hebrew: שמה (he) (sháma), ‎לשם (he) (l'shám) Hindi: उधर (hi) (udhar)

Hungarian: oda (hu) Icelandic: þangað (is) Indonesian: ke situ (less distant), ke sana (more distant) Japanese: そこへ (ja) (sokó-e), あそこへ (ja) (asokó-e) Korean: 저쪽으로 (ko) (jeojjok-euro) Latin: illūc (la), eodem (la) Macedonian: таму (mk) (támu), натаму (mk) (nátamu) Polish: tam (pl) Quechua: jaqayman (-man = illative case) Romanian: încolo (ro) Russian: туда (ru) (tudá) Serbian: tamo (sr), onamo (sr) Spanish: por allí (es), hacia allá (es) Swedish: dit (sv) Turkish: şuraya (less distant), oraya (more distant) Ukrainian: туди (uk) (tudý) Urdu: ادهر (ur) (udhar) Vietnamese: đằng kia, đằng kia (vi)