hither Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb to this place (especially toward the speaker)
    here.
    • come here, please

WordNet

Hith"er adverb
Etymology
OE. hider, AS. hider; akin to Icel. hra, Dan. hid, Sw. hit, Goth. hidr cf. L. citra on this side, or E. here, he. 183. Cf. He.
Definitions
  1. To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.
  2. To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
    Hither we refer whatsoever belongeth unto the highest perfection of man. Hooker.
    Knolles.
Hith"er adjective
Definitions
  1. Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill. Milton.
  2. Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
    And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty summers. Tennyson.
    To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday. Huxley.

Webster 1913