Far

/fɑː/ · adjective

Meaning

Distant; remote in space..

Definitions by Sense

1. Distant; remote in space.
2. Remote in time.
3. Long.
4. More remote of two.
5. Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
6. Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
7. (programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
8. To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.

Example Sentences

He went to a far land.

And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: Now therefore make ye a league with vs.

Tsiolkas's Europe, as voraciously predatory as his own undead protagonist, is a far cry from the fount of idealistic humanism dreamed up by generations of both pre- and post-Enlightenment politicians and philosophers, a Europe defined by its durable capacity for civility in an otherwise barbarous world.

the far far future

I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already

See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.

He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.

At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

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Word Forms

• farther
• further
• farthest
• furthest
• farthermost
• furthermost
• fars
• farring
• farred

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