hither
ADV · English
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English is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 60 source-backed words in English. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: To this place, to here. From a source of medium confidence.
archaic · literary · not-comparable
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- He went hither and thither. Usage example — not an attested quotation.
- SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither 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. c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- Unto her handmaid she cried, "Go fetch my gold harp hither to me, Sir Thynnè, I'll draw to my side." 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 164:
- 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. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:
- "How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff." 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 44:
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Definition: over here From a source of medium confidence.
not-comparable
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Etymology: From Old English hider, from Proto-Germanic *hidrê. Cognate with Latin citer. From a source of medium confidence.
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