fro

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [fɹəʊ]
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: froe

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.

fro (not comparable)

1. (archaic) From; away; back or backward.

In modern English, used only in the set phrase to and fro (“back and forth”).

• froward
• to and fro
• enfroward

Clipping of afro.

• 'fro

fro (plural fros)

1. (slang) An afro (hairstyle)

• FOR, ORF, for, for-, orf

fro

1. second-person singular imperative of froen

fro

1. from
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale

     That if I might skapen fro prisoun

     That if I can escape from prison

• froc (Guernsey)

From Old French froc (“frock, a monk's gown or habit”), from Frankish *hrokk (“robe, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz (“robe, garment, cowl”), variant of *rukkaz (“upper garment, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *rug(')- (“upper clothes, shirt”).

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fro m (plural frocs)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) dress

• robe

fro

1. from

• fra

From Proto-Germanic *frawaz, whence also Old Norse frár (“swift”).

frō (comparative frōworo, superlative frōwost)

1. glad

fro

1. Soft mutation of bro.