fro

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UK/fɹəʊ/US/fɹoʊ/

adverb

From; away; back or backward.

OriginMiddle English fro ← Old English fra ← Old Norse frá →
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Meanings

fro1

adverbfro (not comparable)
  1. not comparablearchaic on its ownFrom; away; back or backward.
preposition
  1. obsoleteFrom.

    The preest that hawkys so, All grace is far hym fro.

    c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 15–16

fro2

nounfro (plural fros)

plural fros · alternative 'fro

  1. abbreviationclippingslangClipping of afro (hairstyle).

Origin

fro · adverb, preposition

  1. Proto-Indo-European*promo-“forth, forward”
  2. Proto-Germanic*fram“from”
  3. Old Norsefrá“from”
  4. Old Englishfra“from”
  5. Middle Englishfro
  6. Englishfro

From Middle English fro, fra, from Old English fra (“from”), from Old Norse frá (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fram (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“forth, forward”). Cognate with Scots frae (“fro, from”), Icelandic frá (“from”). More at from.

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fro · noun

Clipping of afro.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with fro

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Sounds the same

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Anagrams

fororf
Cite this entry
APA

fro. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fro

MLA

“fro.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fro. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fro,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fro.

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