01 adv. To that place; -- opposed to hither.
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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.
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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.