different between whitherward vs whither
whitherward
English
Alternative forms
- whitherwards
Etymology
whither +? -ward
Adverb
whitherward (not comparable)
- In what direction; toward what or which place.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:whitherward.
Synonyms
- whither
See also
- hitherward
- thitherward
whitherward From the web:
- what does whitherward mean
whither
English
Etymology
From Old English hwider, alteration of hwæder, from Proto-Germanic *hwadrê.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???ð?/; enPR: hw?th??r
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???ð?/
- (in accents with the wine-whine merger) IPA(key): /?w?ð?/, /?w?ð?/
- Rhymes: -?ð?(?)
- Homophone: wither (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Adverb
whither (not comparable)
- (archaic, formal, poetic or literary) To what place.
- 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Penguin Red Classics, paperback edition, page 24
- And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 8
- The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.
- 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Penguin Red Classics, paperback edition, page 24
Usage notes
- This word is unusual in modern usage; (to) where is much more common. It is more often encountered in older works or when used poetically or jocularly.
- It is also sometimes used as a rhetorical device by journalists and other writers in headlines, with the meaning "What will the future bring for ..."
- Do not confuse with whether or wither.
- Compare to the inanimate pronoun "whereto" which follows the pattern of "preposition + what" or "preposition + which".
Antonyms
- whence
Derived terms
Related terms
- hither
- thither
- whithersoever
Translations
Verb
whither (third-person singular simple present whithers, present participle whithering, simple past and past participle whithered)
- (intransitive, obsolete, dialectal) To wuther.
whither From the web:
- what withers
- what withers away
- what wither means
- what withered animatronic are you
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- what whither means
- whithersoever meaning
- what withers dog
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