away

Pronunciation: [ә'wei]

Average Rank: 253

Chinese Translation (中文翻译)
Source: ECDICT

adv. 离去

Detailed Explanations:
  • s. not present; having left
  • a. used of an opponent's ground
  • s. (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
  • r. from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete)
ECDICT Dictionary Data
Collins Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Oxford 3000
Difficulty: BASIC
Exam Tags: zk gk

Word Frequency Rankings

Wikipedia
#450

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 95.5% (Top 95.5% most frequent)
95.5%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

TV & Movie Scripts
#170

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 98.3% (Top 98.3% most frequent)
98.3%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

Project Gutenberg
#140

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 98.6% (Top 98.6% most frequent)
98.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

Insights

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.

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