Meanings
- datedliterarynot comparableIn, at or to various places.
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And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.
1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poemsSynonyms: here and there, hither and thither
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn, at or to various places.
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with hither and yon
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hither and yon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hither%20and%20yon
“hither and yon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hither%20and%20yon. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hither and yon,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hither%20and%20yon.
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