different between thither vs thitherwards

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ð?ð??/, /???ð??/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Adverb

thither (not comparable)

1. (chiefly literary or law, dated) To that place.

   • Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape 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.

2. (dated) To that point, end, or result.

Synonyms

• there, over there, away there; yonder (archaic or dialect)

Antonyms

• thence

Derived terms

Related terms

• hither
• whither

Translations

Adjective

thither (not comparable)

1. (archaic) The farther, the other and more distant.

Synonyms

• See farther

See also

English

Alternative forms

• thitherward

Etymology

thither +? -wards

Adverb

thitherwards (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Towards that place

See also

• thither
• hitherward
• whitherward