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–adverb
1.Obsolete. from; back.
—Idiom
2.to and fro, alternating from one place to another; back and forth: The trees were swaying to and fro in the wind.
[Origin: 1150–1200; ME frō, frā < ON frā from; akin to OE fram from]
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–adjective, noun, plural 'fros. Informal.
Afro.
Also, fro.

[Origin: 1970–75; by shortening]
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fro    Audio Help   (frō)  Pronunciation Key 
adv.   Away; back: moving to and fro.

prep.   Scots
From.


[Middle English, probably from Old Norse frā; see per1 in Indo-European roots.]

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fro 
"away, backwards," c.1200, North Eng. and Scot. dial. fra, Midlands dial. fro, from O.N. fra "from" (see from).

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fro

see to and fro.


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Fro

Fro\ (fr[=o]), adv. [OE. fra, fro, adv. & prep., Icel. fr[=a], akin to Dan. fra from, E. from. See From.] From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To. --Milton.
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Fro

Fro\, prep. From. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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