whither Definition

whither (old use or poetic)
adverb

1. To what place?

Example: Whither did they go?
2. In what direction?; towards what state?

Example: whither education?

conj, pronoun

1. To the, or any, place that; towards which.

Example: went whither he was bid
2. Towards which place.

Example: Some miles away lay London, whither they journeyed

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hwider.