afar

1. 1.

   (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”

Questions about afar

What does afar mean?

afar means "(old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far".

How many syllables are in afar?

afar has 2 syllables: a-far. The stress falls on "far". In IPA it is /əˈfɑɹ/.

Is afar a common word?

afar is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with afar?

2 words rhyme with afar. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.