ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Somewhither

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Somewhither is an adverb meaning (archaic, literary) To some indeterminate place; to some place or other; to somewhere.

Meaning

(archaic, literary) To some indeterminate place; to some place or other; to somewhere.

Example Sentences

See, Lucius, see how much she makes of thee / Somewhither would she have thee go with her.
The stirring of the wind was pleasantly ominous to Reilly: it was quickening, encouraging, hostile to inertia; it came somewhence and was going somewhither.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
So came they, three hours after noon, to where was a clearing in the woodland, and a long narrow plain some furlong over lay before them,[…], and the wood rose on the other side high and thick, so that the said plain looked even as a wide green highway leading from somewhence to somewhither.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include everywhither, anywhither, elsewhither, whitherever, elsewhen, anywhence.

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