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say it: uh-WAY
away is an adverb and adjective meaning "from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)". It carries 14 recorded senses.
from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
“ran away from the lion”
“wanted to get away from there”
“sent the children away to boarding school”
“the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal”
“went off to school”
“they drove off”
“go forth and preach”
archaism
out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)
“brush the objections aside”
“pushed all doubts away”
out of existence
“the music faded away”
“tried to explain away the affair of the letter”
“idled the hours away”
“her fingernails were worn away”
at a distance in space or time
“the boat was 5 miles off (or away)”
“the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)”
“away back in the 18th century”
indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily
“he worked away at the project for more than a year”
“the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it”
so as to be removed or gotten rid of
“cleared the mess away”
“the rotted wood had to be cut away”
freely or at will
“fire away!”
in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping)
“put the toys away”
“her jewels are locked away in a safe”
“filed the letter away”
not present; having left
“he's away right now”
“you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away”
(of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
“the pitch was away (or wide)”
“an outside pitch”
baseball
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for away come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.