Synonyms for afar
əˈfɑrafar

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1. afar

   Synonyms:
   abroad, away, aloof

   Antonyms:
   near, at home, close

Princeton's WordNet

1. afaradverb

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

   "we traveled afar"; "we could see the ship afar off"; "the Magi came from afar"

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1. afaradjective

   Synonyms:
   far off, long way off, afar off, wide away, a great way off, at a distance, to or from a distance

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1. List of paraphrases for "afar":

   talafar, telafer, telafar, talafer

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1. Olga Ruiz:

   They killed him in cold blood, he and two of his companions, they heard the gunshots from afar and my stepfather told him: ‘son, you have to take shelter.’ So he asked permission to enter a house but my brother and his companions were only about to enter when the vehicles arrived.

2. Peoplethat Pennington:

   I have admired Kellee from afar for years. She’s a beautiful person inside and out, luckily our paths finally crossed at the right time. It’s one of those things where you just feel happy being around a person. I never thought I would get married, but she changed that. Glad I waited for the one.

3. Seth MacFarlane:

   The idea that 'Family Guy' is this cartoon Ouija board that predicts things… I was just watching things happen from afar, i think it’s sort of modern media. The idea that it’s more important to be first than to be right. It’s a strange thing to observe. We write our show the same way as everyone else. We make the same kind of topical jokes that ‘The Simpson’ does, [that] ‘South Park’ does. And you work with what you have whether that be swirling rumors or political [material].

4. Steve Warren:

   We've seen some of the leaders move their families, we believe, into Tal Afar as we've placed increased pressure on Mosul.

5. Aussie Ark:

   We have been working tirelessly for the better part of 10 years to return Devils to the wild of mainland Australia with the hope that they would establish a sustainable population. Once they were back, it was entirely up to them, we had been watching them from afar until it was time to step in and confirm the birth of our first wild joeys. And what a moment it was !