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Meaning of hither and yon | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

In, at or to various places.

dated, literary, not-comparable

Examples

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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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