Whither: Definition and part of speech

Whither

  1. adv. To what point, degree, end, conclusion, or design; whereunto; whereto; — used in a sense not physical.
  2. adv. To what place; — used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou?
  3. adv. To what or which place; — used relatively.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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