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See also:hithër

English

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishhider, fromProto-Germanic*hidrê. Cognate withLatinciter.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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hither (notcomparable)

  1. (literary or archaic) To this place, to here.
    He wenthither and thither.
    • c.1588–1593 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene iii]:
      SATURNINUS: Go fetch themhither to us presently.
      TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
      Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
      Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
    • 1828,Thomas Keightley,The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page164:
      Unto her handmaid she cried,
      "Go fetch my gold harphither to me,
      Sir Thynnè, I'll draw to my side."
    • 1886,Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page280:
      But the road left the river again; there were certainly twistings and turnings, as the old woman had said, for at one moment it woundhither and the next thither, and at some places it was almost imperceptible.
    • 1936,Norman Lindsay,The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page44:
      "How now, you scullions and cullions: bringhither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff."
  2. over here

Usage notes

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  • Compare to thepronominal adverb "hereto" which follows the pattern of "preposition + what" or "preposition + which".

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Related terms

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Translations

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to here

Adjective

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hither (notcomparable)

  1. (archaic) On this side; the nearer.
    Synonym:(literary)citerior
    • 1954,Aldous Huxley,The Doors of Perception, Chatto & Windus, page30:
      The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on thehither side of good and evil.

Derived terms

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Translations

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on this side

See also

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this placethat placewhat place
atheretherewhere
tohitherthitherwhither
fromhencethencewhence

Verb

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hither (third-person singular simple presenthithers,present participlehithering,simple past and past participlehithered)

  1. only used in the phrasehither and thither
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