Away: Definition and part of speech

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Away

  1. adv. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away.
  2. adv. From a place; hence.
  3. adv. Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.
  4. adv. Aside; off; in another direction.
  5. adv. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
  6. adv. By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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