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"away" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often outside (7 letters).
Definitions
Not here; at a distance
Word origin
From Middle English away, awey, awei, oway, o wey, on way, from Old English āweġ, onweġ (“away”), originally on weġ (“on one's way; onward; on”), equivalent to a- (“on”) + way.
Used in a sentence
“He went away on vacation.”
“One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.”
“I tried to approach him, but he turned away.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues
01“Not on home turf”4 letters
02“Not present”4 letters
03“Visiting the opponent”4 letters
04“Not here”4 letters
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