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adverb əˈfɑːəˈfɑr literary At or to a distance. 〈主诗/文〉在（或向）远方 for months he had loved her from afar 数月来他一直在远方爱着她。 Example sentencesExamples - I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar.
- We drove fast, in case they thought to pull out their six-guns and drill us from afar.
- Those who had travelled from afar were allowed to carry home their treasures.
- This year's cabaret is a bitter-sweet affair, revolving around songs of romance on the run and love from afar.
- There are flags flying - the Palace has a big standard visible from afar.
OriginMiddle English of feor 'from far'. Rhymesaargh, Accra, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, bar, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Bekaa, bête noire, Bihar, bizarre, blah, Bogotá, Bonnard, bra, cafard, café noir, Calabar, car, Carr, Castlebar, catarrh, Changsha, char, charr, cigar, comme ci comme ça, commissar, coup d'état, de haut en bas, devoir, Dhofar, Directoire, Du Bois, Dumas, Dunbar, éclat, embarras de choix, escritoire, fah, famille noire, far, feu de joie, film noir, foie gras, Fra, galah, gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, khimar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, Lehár, Loire, ma, mama, mamma, mar, Mardi Gras, ménage à trois, mirepoix, moire, nam pla, Navarre, noir, objet d'art, pa, pah, Panama, papa, par, Pará, Paraná, pas, pâté de foie gras, peau-de-soie, pietà, Pinot Noir, pooh-bah, poult-de-soie, pya, rah, registrar, Saar, Salazar, Sana'a, sang-froid, scar, schwa, Seychellois, shah, Shangri-La, shikar, ska, sol-fa, spa, spar, star, Starr, Stranraer, ta, tahr, tar, tartare, tata, tra-la, tsar, Twa, Villa, voilà, waratah, yah nounPlural Afars ˈɑːfɑːˈäˌfär 1A member of a people living in Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. Also called Danakil Example sentencesExamples - Moreover, beginning in 1991, tensions between Afars and the Issa-dominated government resulted in an Afar rebellion.
- When I asked the Afar about this they denied they ever did such things - they said it was done in Somalia.
- The Afars are mostly nomadic pastoralists whose grazing area extends from eastern and southern Eritrea into Ethiopia.
- The Afar also suffer from kidney stones, a consequence of not drinking enough water.
- There are two major ethnic groups in Djibouti, the Afars (sometimes also called the Danakil) and the Somalis.
2mass noun The Cushitic language of the Afar, with about 700,000 speakers. Example sentencesExamples - The six islands are named in Arabic, in the local Afar language, and in French.
- The subspecies name idaltu comes from the Afar language of Ethiopia.
- Most Afar-speaking people are found in Ethiopia.
- There are television and radio broadcasts in the French, Afar, Somali, and Arabic languages.
- Ardipithecus means ‘root ape’ in the Afar language.
adjective ˈɑːfɑːˈäˌfär Relating to the Afar or their language. Example sentencesExamples - There are one or two hotels in town, and you can see several traditional Afar huts around town.
- Ethiopian officials warned yesterday of an impending tragedy in the drought-stricken Afar region.
- Today, the region is the home of the semi-nomadic Afar people.
- The chamber of deputies consisted of 33 Issa representatives, and 32 Deputies of the Afar people.
- Bribing his way by caravan over the wastelands of the Afar province, he is not amused by the locals.
adverbəˈfärəˈfɑr literary At or to a distance. 〈主诗/文〉在（或向）远方 for months he had loved her from afar 数月来他一直在远方爱着她。 我们的英雄一路远行。 Example sentencesExamples - I'd intended to be mature and sedate and demure and just wistfully watch the young guests from afar.
- Those who had travelled from afar were allowed to carry home their treasures.
- There are flags flying - the Palace has a big standard visible from afar.
- This year's cabaret is a bitter-sweet affair, revolving around songs of romance on the run and love from afar.
- We drove fast, in case they thought to pull out their six-guns and drill us from afar.
OriginMiddle English of feor ‘from far’. nounˈäˌfär 1A member of a people living in Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. Example sentencesExamples - The Afar also suffer from kidney stones, a consequence of not drinking enough water.
- The Afars are mostly nomadic pastoralists whose grazing area extends from eastern and southern Eritrea into Ethiopia.
- When I asked the Afar about this they denied they ever did such things - they said it was done in Somalia.
- Moreover, beginning in 1991, tensions between Afars and the Issa-dominated government resulted in an Afar rebellion.
- There are two major ethnic groups in Djibouti, the Afars (sometimes also called the Danakil) and the Somalis.
2The Cushitic language of the Afar. Example sentencesExamples - The six islands are named in Arabic, in the local Afar language, and in French.
- The subspecies name idaltu comes from the Afar language of Ethiopia.
- Ardipithecus means ‘root ape’ in the Afar language.
- Most Afar-speaking people are found in Ethiopia.
- There are television and radio broadcasts in the French, Afar, Somali, and Arabic languages.
adjectiveˈäˌfär Relating to the Afar or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Bribing his way by caravan over the wastelands of the Afar province, he is not amused by the locals.
- There are one or two hotels in town, and you can see several traditional Afar huts around town.
- Today, the region is the home of the semi-nomadic Afar people.
- Ethiopian officials warned yesterday of an impending tragedy in the drought-stricken Afar region.
- The chamber of deputies consisted of 33 Issa representatives, and 32 Deputies of the Afar people.
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