Hither

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈhɪðə/
• US IPA: /ˈhɪðɚ/Rhymes: -ɪðə(r)

Origin

Old English hider. Cognate with Latin citer.

Full definition of hither

Adverb

1. (literary or archaic) To this place, to here.He went hither and thither.
2. over here

Derived terms

• hitherto
• hitherward

Related terms

• thither
• whither
• hither and thither

Adjective

1. (archaic) On this side; the nearer.
• 1954, The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus 1954, p. 30)