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Fro definition

frō
Away; back.

Moving to and fro.

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Away; backward; back.
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The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for the Faroe Islands.
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(slang) Contraction of afro.
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Noun

Singular:
fro
Plural:
fros

Origin of fro

  • Middle English probably from Old Norse frā per1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fro Sentence Examples

  • His whole career was taken up with marchings to and fro within the lands, first of the Eastern, then of the Western empire.

  • Hundreds of little sail-boats swung to and fro close by, and the sea was calm.

  • I guessed vaguely from my mother's signs and from the hurrying to and fro in the house that something unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps.

  • The sound travelled to and fro in the pipes several times before the signals died away, and he found that the velocity decreased with the intensity, tending to a limit for very feeble sounds, the limit being the same whatever the source.

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