Usually means: Up to this present time.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word hitherto:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. hitherto: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hitherto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hitherto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hitherto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hitherto: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hitherto, hitherto: Wordnik
  7. hitherto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hitherto: Wiktionary
  9. hitherto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hitherto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hitherto: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hitherto, hitherto: Dictionary.com
  13. hitherto: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hitherto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hitherto: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. hitherto: Rhymezone
  17. Hitherto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hitherto: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. hitherto: Free Dictionary
  20. hitherto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. hitherto: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. hitherto: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. hitherto: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hitherto: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hithertos as well.)

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adverb:  (formal, also law) Up to this or that time or point.

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