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afar

adverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//əˈfɑː//
  • United States//əˈfɑɹ//

At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

adverb

  1. 1

    At, to, or from a great distance; far away.

    He was seen from afar.

    He loved her from afar.

Etymology

From Middle English afer, equivalent to a- (“for, on, or of”) + far.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).