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Webster 1913 Edition


Hither

Hith′er

,
adv.
[OE.
hider
, AS.
hider
; akin to Icel.
hēðra
, Dan.
hid
, Sw.
hit
, Goth.
hidrē
; cf. L.
citra
on this side, or E.
here
,
he
. √183. Cf.
He
.]
1.
To this place; – used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither;
as, to come or bring
hither
.
2.
To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; – in a sense not physical.
Hither
we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man.
Hooker.
Hither and thither
,
to and fro; backward and forward; in various directions.
“Victory is like a traveller, and goeth hither and thither.”
Knolles.

Hith′er

,
Adj.
1.
Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; – correlate of thither and farther;
as, on the
hither
side of a hill
.
Milton.
2.
Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
And on the
hither
side, or so she looked,
Of twenty summers.
Tennyson.
To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the
hither
and thither side of thirty, the name of
Charles Darwin
stands alongside of those of
Isaac Newton
and
Michael Faraday
.
Huxley.

Webster 1828 Edition


Hither

HITH'ER

, adv.
1.
To this place; used with verbs signifying motion; as, to come hither; to proceed hither; to bring hither.
2.
Hither and thither, to this place and that.
3.
To this point; to this argument or topic; to this end. [Little used and not to be encouraged.]
Hither we refer whatever belongs to the highest perfection of man.

HITH'ER

,
Adj.
Nearest; towards the person speaking; as on the hither side of a hill; the hither end of the building.

Definition 2024


hither

hither

See also: hithër

English

Adverb

hither (not comparable)

  1. (literary or archaic) To this place, to here.
    He went hither and thither.
  2. over here

Usage notes

  • Compare to the pronominal adverb "hereto" which follows the pattern of "preposition + what" or "preposition + which".

Derived terms

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Translations

Adjective

hither (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) On this side; the nearer.
    • 1954, The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 30)

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