AFAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does afar mean? 

• AFAR (adverb)
  The adverb AFAR has 1 sense:

1. (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far

  Familiarity information: AFAR used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFAR (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far

Context example:

the Magi came from afar

 Context examples 

Afar off he heard the squawking of caribou calves.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

In doing this, he saw afar off something bright and shining and calling to his companions said, There must be a house no great way off, for I see a light.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Either there was a roaring in my ears or I heard afar off the howl of wolves.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I thought that at last I had you to mine own self, even though your youth had been spent afar from my side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We advance, but the goal is afar.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team dubbed it ‘Oumuamua (pronounced oh-MOO-ah-MOO-ah), which means “a messenger from afar arriving first” in Hawaiian — and it’s already living up to its name.

(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)

Mosquitoes have an amazing ability to zero in on us from afar and head straight for our bare skin.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)

They spoke to me from afar off.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Kate decided that she was 'odd', but rather clever, and smiled upon her from afar.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)