hither
See also: hithër
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɪðə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɪðɚ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: hi‧ther
AdverbEdit
hither (not comparable)
- (literary or archaic) To this place, to here.
- He went hither and thither.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:
- But the road left the river again; there were certainly twistings and turnings, as the old woman had said, for at one moment it wound hither and the next thither, and at some places it was almost imperceptible.
- over here
Usage notesEdit
- Compare to the pronominal adverb "hereto" which follows the pattern of "preposition + what" or "preposition + which".
AntonymsEdit
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TranslationsEdit
to here
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AdjectiveEdit
hither (not comparable)
- (archaic) On this side; the nearer.
- Synonym: (literary) citerior
- 1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Chatto & Windus, page 30:
- The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
on this side
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See alsoEdit
here | there | where |
hither | thither | whither |
hence | thence | whence |