HITHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hither mean? 

• HITHER (adverb)
  The adverb HITHER has 1 sense:

1. to this place (especially toward the speaker)

  Familiarity information: HITHER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HITHER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To this place (especially toward the speaker)

Synonyms:

here; hither

Context example:

come here, please

 Context examples 

Come hither, young man, young English squire with the gray eyes!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From something that he told me in our journey hither, I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted to him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Twelve long years have I waited here for the fairy to bring you hither as she promised, for you alone can save me.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It will take him time to arrive here—see, it is twenty minutes past one—and there are yet some times before he can hither come, be he never so quick.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I turned hither and thither among the trees.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

At such moments he even closed his eyes and allowed his body to be hurled hither and thither, willy-nilly, careless of any hurt that might thereby come to it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Oh! yes—but how they were conveyed hither? —the manner of their coming?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Hither, on the first morning of my so auspiciously beginning life on my own account, the oldest of the regular boys was summoned to show me my business.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)