thither

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   to or toward that place

   The travelers went thither before nightfall.

2. 2
   adv

   To that place.

   The travelers went thither before nightfall.

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.

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