afar

¹ American  

[uh-fahr] / əˈfɑr /

adverb

1. from, at, or to a distance; far away (usually followed byoff ).

   He saw the castle afar off.

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idioms

1. from afar,  from a long way off.

   The princess saw him riding toward her from afar.

Afar ² American  

[ah-fahr] / ˈɑ fɑr /

noun

PLURAL

Afars, Afara

PLURAL

Afar

1. a member of a nomadic Muslim people living in Eritrea, Djibouti, and northern Ethiopia.

2. the Northern Cushitic language spoken by the Afars.

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afar British  

/ əˈfɑː /

adverb

1. at, from, or to a great distance

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noun

1. a great distance (esp in the phrase from afar )

Etymology

Origin of afar

1125–75; Middle English a fer, on ferr; replacing Old English feorran. See a- ¹ (perhaps also a- ² for the meaning “from”), far

Example Sentences

Watching them from afar, Verstappen could only scoff at the Papaya Rules.

From The Wall Street Journal

You can love them from afar or you could love them from the other side of the kitchen table.

From MarketWatch

Sir Michael said he was initially impressed from afar by Jones' acting.

From BBC

Law enforcement eventually placed an ankle monitor on her husband, but he came to her son’s soccer games, stalking them and watching from afar.

From Los Angeles Times

These distant cells appeared to influence the planarian stem cells' position and function during regeneration, even from afar.

From Science Daily