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# afar

«afar» in Mova's school dictionary: **Far away, at a great distance** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (only in phrases)

### meaning for a pupil

(old-fashioned or literary) Far away, at a great distance. Used mostly in "from afar". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afar/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories, poems and songs: travellers came from afar; she admired him from afar (from a distance, without talking to him). Phrases: from afar, near and afar.

### examples

- Visitors came from afar to see the festival. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afar/#x1)
- We watched the fireworks from afar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afar/#x2)
- He admired the famous singer from afar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afar/#x3)
- From afar, the mountain looked blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afar/#x4)
- Wise men travelled from afar in the old story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afar/#x5)
- The castle could be seen from afar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afar/#x6)
- “Drown!” answered Pinocchio from afar, happy at his escape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afar/#x7)

### note

Almost always "from afar". Literary; in everyday speech say "from far away" or "from a distance". Not used as "the shop is afar" (say "far away").

### In the corpora

- [On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.579/)
- [And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1196/)
- [And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.27/)
- [And the people stood afar off; but Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.574/)
- [Is this your joyous city, whose feet in antiquity, in ancient days, carried her afar off to sojourn?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.475/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «afar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.