To what place; -- used interrogatively; as,
whither goest thou? "Whider may I flee?" --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Sir Valentine, whither away so fast? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
To what or which place; -- used relatively. [1913
Webster] That no man should know . . . whither that he went.
--Chaucer. [1913 Webster] We came unto the land whither thou
sentest us. --Num. xiii.
[1913 Webster]
To what point, degree, end, conclusion, or
design; whereunto; whereto; -- used in a sense not physical. [1913
Webster] Nor have I . . . whither to appeal. --Milton. [1913
Webster] Any whither,
to any place; anywhere. [Obs.] "Any whither, in hope of life
eternal." --Jer. Taylor. No whither, to
no place; nowhere. [Obs.] --2 Kings v.
[1913 Webster] Syn: Where. Usage: Whither, Where. Whither properly implies
motion to place, and where rest in a place. Whither is now,
however, to a great extent, obsolete, except in poetry, or in
compositions of a grave and serious character and in language where
precision is required. Where has taken its place, as in the
question, "Where are you going?" [1913 Webster] [1913
Webster]
Word Net
whither adv : to what place; "whither go you?"English
Etymology
Old English hwæderPronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪðə(r)
Adverb
whither- archaic quaint To
which place.
- Whither am I going?
Quotations
- 1885, Robert
Louis Stevenson,
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Penguin Red
Classics, paperback edition, page 24
- And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.
- 1918, Willa
Cather, My Antonia,
Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 8
- The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither.
Usage notes
Synonyms
Translations
to which place
Verb
- To wuther.
Where may refer to:
- Where (SQL) - Database language clause
- Where - basic interrogative about location