away

English Online Dictionary. What means away‎? What does away mean?

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ə-wā'; IPA^(key): /əˈweɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophone: aweigh
• Hyphenation: a‧way

Etymology 1

From Middle English away, awey, awei, oway, o wey, on way, from Old English āweġ, onweġ (“away”), originally on weġ (“on one's way; onward; on”), equivalent to a- (“on”) +‎ way.

Cognate with Scots awa, away (“away”), Old Frisian aweg, awei (“away”), Saterland Frisian wäch, wääge (“away”), Dutch weg (“away”), German weg (“away”), Danish væk (“away”), Swedish i väg (“away; off; along”).

Adverb

away (not comparable)

1. From a place, hence.
2. Aside; off; in another direction.

3. Aside, so as to discard something.

4. At a stated distance in time or space.
5. In or to something's usual or proper storage place.

6. In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.

7. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.

8. So as to remove or use up something.

9. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
   • 1933+, Fran Striker, The Lone Ranger, WXYZ-AM

     Hi-yo Silver, away!

10. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.

11. Without restraint.

Synonyms

• (away from a place): at bay, off, off-, ab-, apo-, de-, out-

Translations

Interjection

away

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Northern England) Come on! Go on!
2. (Scotland, dismissal) Away with you! Go away!

Adjective

away (not comparable)

1. Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.

2. At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.

3. (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.

4. (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.

5. (golf) Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).

Translations

Verb

away (third-person singular simple present aways, present participle awaying, simple past and past participle awayed)

1. (intransitive, poetic) To depart; to go to another place.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See aweigh

Adjective

away (comparative more away, superlative most away)

1. Misspelling of aweigh.

References

• “away”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Yawa

Cebuano

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *áway.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧way
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔawaj/ [ˈʔa.wɐɪ̯]

Noun

áway (Badlit spelling ᜀᜏᜌ᜔)

1. a fight; a physical confrontation

   Synonym: buno

2. a quarrel; a heated argument

   Synonym: bingkil

3. (sports) a boxing or martial arts match

   Synonym: takos

4. a war

   Synonym: gubat

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:away.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ayaw, yawa

Quechua

Verb

away

1. (transitive) To weave.

Conjugation

See also

• sinp'ay

Tagalog

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *áway. Compare Cebuano away and Waray-Waray away.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔawaj/ [ˈʔaː.waɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -awaj
• Syllabification: a‧way

Noun

away (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜏᜌ᜔)

1. fight; quarrel; dispute

   Synonyms: alit, alitan, bangay, bangayan, pag-aaway, babag, pagtatalo, hidwaan, tunggalian, labanan, taltalan, talakan

Derived terms

Further reading

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*áway”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• ayaw

Waray-Waray

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *áway.

Noun

away

1. fight; quarrel; altercation; trouble

Yola

Adverb

away

1. Alternative form of awye

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86