Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. To or toward this place: Come hither.
- adj. Located on the near side.
- idiom. thither In or to many places; here and there: looked hither and thither for the ring; ran hither and yon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To this place: used with verbs signifying motion: as, to come hither; to bring hither.
- To this time; up to the present time.
- To this point; to this end; to this argument or conclusion.
- On the side or in the direction of the person speaking; near: correlative of further: as, on the hither side of a hill.
- To come hither.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of
hence andthither . - adv. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
- adj. Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of
thither andfarther . - adj. Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. to this place (especially toward the speaker)
Etymologies
- Old English hider. Cognate with Latin citer. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English hider; see ko- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mat 22: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?”
The Long, Modest Gowns Painted by Peter Severin Kroyer (1851-1909)
“Now he had already said to the birds, ‘With me is a young man, a mere youth, whom destiny brought hither from a distant land; and I desire of you that ye take him up and carry him to his own country.’”
“Ibrahim, Wazir to King Shamikh; and the manner of my coming hither is wondrous and the cause thereof marvellous.”
“Lots of positive enthusiasm about my work and how the team was going to spread my name hither and yon among readers of the world.”
On jumping genres and what that may (or may not) mean to the Gischler
“One day, therefore, she called hither her son, Love (Cupid, some name him), and bade him sharpen his weapons.”
“One day, therefore, she called hither her son, Love [Cupid, some name him], and bade him sharpen his weapons.”
“And seeing an Arahant approaching the house-door, she bade him 'Come in hither, lord,' and did him homage, showing him to a seat; she then took his bowl and filled it with food.”
“Then as I stood there, I felt the door behind me yield a bit and a hand was thrust out, and a voice whispered, "Harry, Harry, come in hither; we can hold the house against an army.”
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
“Indeed, I have no opportunity, for there they both are coming hither from the house.”
“When daylight came, Thaine Aydelot saw the frontier line that he had proudly felt himself called hither to push back, and the reality of it was awful.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hither’.
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Olde Englisc
English words of Anglo-Saxon origin.
onslaught, slain, clove, clave, thrice, nincompoop, scorn, storm, scant, lurk, beneath, atop and 143 more...
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
hysteresis, hyrax, hyoid, hymnody, hymnal, hylicism, hydric, hyalopterous, hyaloid, hyalography, hyaline, hyacinthine and 568 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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Potpourri
eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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billy shakespeare's guide to good living
hurlyburly, nave, direful, whence, sooth, dwindle, tempest-tost, withal, selfsame, wrack, unfix, recompense and 142 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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miltonic
liberty, froth-becurlèd, host, huge-bellied, aghast, rills, gladsom, wrathfull, ordain, thunder-clasping, ruddy, warble and 264 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hither.
reesetee Oooh! A triad! Dec 2, 2007
sonofgroucho I forgot yon!
Hither, Thither and Yon: sounds like an international law firm. Dec 2, 2007
reesetee And cousin yon. Dec 2, 2007
sonofgroucho Not to mention its unruly twin thither. Dec 2, 2007