whither

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈʍɪðɚ/; enPR: hwĭthʹər
• (RP) IPA: /ˈʍɪðə/
• (in accents with the wine-whine merger) IPA: /ˈwɪðɚ/, /ˈwɪðə/

Adverb

whither (not comparable)

1. (archaic, formal, poetic or literary) To what place.
   • 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.

Antonyms

• whence

Related terms

• hither
• thither

Translations

• French: où
• German: wohin
• Italian: a dove
• Portuguese: aonde
• Russian: куда́
• Spanish: adónde (interrogative), adonde (relative)

Verb

whither (whithers, present participle whithering; past and past participle whithered)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, dialectal) To wuther.

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