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. Sigmund Freud, Letter to Carl Jung, January 17, 1909:

   We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.

2. 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.

3. Bill de Blasio:

   We need moments of joy now more than ever, and we won't let a pandemic get in the way of true love, to all of the couples looking forward to tying the knot, know that New York City is right here with you, throwing rice from afar.

4. Yohannes Haile-Selassie:

   The new species is yet another confirmation that Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, was not the only potential human ancestor species that roamed in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia during the middle Pliocene, current fossil evidence from the Woranso-Mille study area clearly shows that there were at least two, if not three, early human species living at the same time and in close geographic proximity.

5. Jeff Merkley:

   This is terrific news for Stacey, for her family, and for all the Oregonians who have followed Stacey's story and helped support her from afar.