from way back

1. 1.

   since long ago

   “she knows him from way back”

   Synonymssince a long time ago

Questions about from way back

What does from way back mean?

from way back means "since long ago".

What is another word for from way back?

Close synonyms include since a long time ago. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is from way back a common word?

from way back is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.