Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hither
IPA transcription: [h'ɪðɚ]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: here, hither
    Meaning: to this place (especially toward the speaker); "come here, please"
Usage examples
  • I turned hither and thither among the trees.
  • She darts hither and thither, turning and twisting.
  • "Do you not love that white-faced girl you brought hither?"
  • Others follow, some higher, some lower, hither and thither.
  • Even as this man, loyal as he is, came hither to learn his fate.
  • 'Now the time is up', bawled the king; 'come hither, headsman, and take off his head.'
  • "Nobody else has such a staff. It was Quicksilver; and he brought me hither, as well as the box.
  • Had he come hither, conducted by war alone, what would Edward have been worse than any other conqueror?
  • "Stand still, then, thou common man," said Hunrad, scornfully, "and behold what the gods have called us hither to do.
  • At once his eyes became fixed upon the solitary dwelling and hither he followed his curiosity,--a real blind man's rope.