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from afar
from afar
From a (sometimes great) distance. You can't turn the man away, he came from afar, and the only polite thing to do is to offer him a place to stay! I was terrified my first week in the hospital, so I was quite content to watch surgeries from afar in the gallery.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Horatio | | hə-RAY-shee-o, hə-RAY-sho | English |
Miron (1) | | MEE-rawn (Polish) | Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish |
Swaran | | - | Punjabi |
Marje | | MAHRJ | English |
Aleksi | | AH-lek-see | Finnish |
Keshia | | - | African American |