thither
part of speech
adverb (thither — old-fashioned)
meaning for a pupil
1) (old-fashioned, formal) Thither means "to that place" or "there": "He went thither on foot." tree →
2) "Hither and thither" means here and there, in many directions: "The leaves blew hither and thither." tree →
sense in the lessons
It appears in old books, the Bible (King James Version), poems and fairy tales; it tells the reader the language is old or grand. In modern speech it survives mainly in "hither and thither". Paired old words: hither (to here), thither (to there), whither (to where?), hence, thence, whence (from here, there, where).
examples
- They journeyed thither by boat. (old style) tree →
- The children ran hither and thither across the field. tree →
- Ants scurried hither and thither. tree →
- "Go thither and bring me water," said the king. tree →
- In the old story, the knight rode thither to save the town. tree →
- The wind blew the paper hither and thither. tree →
- Whither goest thou? Thither, to the sea. (old poem style) tree →
- Thither he went without speaking a word. tree →
note
Pronounced "THITH-er" with the soft "th" of "the". Do not use it in normal modern writing except in "hither and thither". It means "to there", not "at there".
In the corpora
- And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither.
- Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.'
- Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying: Thou also shalt not go in thither;
- So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men; and they fled before the men of Ai.
- So they did unto all the Israelites that came thither in Shiloh.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «thither» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.