Usually means: Not present at a location.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word away:

General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. away: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. away, away: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. away: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. away: Collins English Dictionary
  5. away: Vocabulary.com
  6. Away, away: Wordnik
  7. away: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. away: Wiktionary
  9. away: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. away: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. away: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. away: Dictionary.com
  13. away: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. away: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Away (Enrique Iglesias song), Away (Okkervil River), Away (Okkervil River album), Away (TV series), Away (film), Away (luggage), Away (play), Away: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Away: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. away: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. away: Rhymezone
  19. away: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. away: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. away: Free Dictionary
  22. away: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. away: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. away: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. away: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. away: Legal dictionary
  3. away: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. away: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AWAY: Acronym Finder
  2. away: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. away, away: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Away: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. AWAY: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. away: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See awayness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  From a place, hence.
adverb:  Aside; off; in another direction.
adverb:  Aside, so as to discard something.
adverb:  At a stated distance in time or space.
adverb:  In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
adverb:  In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
adverb:  From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
adverb:  So as to remove or use up something.
adverb:  (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.
adverb:  On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
adverb:  Without restraint.
adjective:  Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
adjective:  At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
adjective:  (chiefly sports) Not on one's home territory.
adjective:  (baseball, following the noun modified) Out.
adjective:  (golf) Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
verb:  (intransitive, poetic) To depart; to go to another place.
adjective:  Misspelling of aweigh. [Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; said of the anchor.]

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