To or toward that place; an old-fashioned word for 'there,' rarely used in modern English except in historical or poetic contexts.
From Old English 'thider,' related to 'that' and 'there,' with Germanic roots. It's been in English for over 1,000 years but is now archaic, replaced by 'there'.
Old-fashioned words like 'thither' (there), 'hither' (here), and 'whither' (where) fell out of use partly because they sounded fancy and old—but they reveal how English once had more precise directional words.
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