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thither a. 那边的,对面的
ad. 往那边,到那边 那边的,对面的往那边,到那边 thither adv 1: to or toward that place; away from the speaker; "go there around noon!" [synonym: {there}, {thither}] [ant: {here}, {hither}] Thither \Thith"er\, adv. [OE. thider, AS. [eth]ider; akin to E.
that; cf. Icel. [thorn]a[eth]ra there, Goth. [thorn]a[thorn]r[=o] thence. See {That}, and {The}.] 1. To that place; -- opposed to {hither}. [1913 Webster] This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. --Gen. xix. 20. [1913 Webster] Where I am, thither ye can not come. --John vii. 34. [1913 Webster] 2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither. [1913 Webster] {Hither and thither}, to this place and to that; one way and another. [1913 Webster] Syn: There. Usage: {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. [1913 Webster] Thither \Thith"er\, a. 1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water. --W. D. Howells. [1913 Webster] 2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See {Hither}, a. --Huxley. [1913 Webster]
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