Thither /(?)/

Thith·er

Thither

adv.
  1. To that place; -- opposed to hither.
    This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither.
    — Gen. xix. 20.
    Where I am, thither ye can not come.
    — John vii. 34.
  2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.

Phrases & Compounds
Hither and thither
to this place and to that; one way and another.
Syn. -- There.

Thither, There. Thither properly denotes motion toward a place; there denotes rest in a place; as, I am going thither, and shall meet you there. But thither has now become obsolete, except in poetry, or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is now used in both senses; as, I shall go there to-morrow; we shall go there together.

Thither

a.
  1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.
  2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a.