far

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UK /fɑː/ US /fɑɹ/

adj 5noun 3adv 2name 2verb 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, better, different, future, gold, heavier, perfect, pleased

The future looks far different from what we expected just a year ago.

VERB + FAR

accept, am, answer, come, going, know, moved, pitching

I don't know how far the nearest train station is from here.

FAR + NOUN

barley, water

The farmer grew far barley in the fields behind his house every summer.

PREP.

from, in, into, than, with, with

The new shopping mall is far from our house, so we don't go there very often.

ADV.

away

The old farmhouse sat far away from the nearest town, surrounded by empty fields.

Definitions

adj

Distant; remote in space.

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.

Remote in time.

the far far future

Long.

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

More remote of two.

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.

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

Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.

They are on the far right on this issue.

He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.

adv

To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.

You have all come far and you will go further.

He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.

Very much; by a great amount.

He was far richer than we'd thought.

The expense far exceeds what I expected.

verb

To send far away.

But I wish he'd been farred before he ever came near this house, with his “Please Betty” this, and “Please Betty” that, and drinking up our new milk as if he'd been a cat. I hate such beguiling ways.

[…] so Joe come to me and he uz sore as a boil and said you goddam prevert, I don't want no twenny-two-year-old mechanic who still pulls his pood in the toilet, and farred me.

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Synonyms

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Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

so far

Until now; previously; yet.

So far, nothing unusual has happened.

far cry

A long distance, in terms of dissimilarity or difference.

Life in the big city was a far cry from his upbringing on a quiet, small farm.

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Alternative form of the apple does not fall far from the tree.

few and far between

Rare and scarce; hard to find.

There are, of course, exceptions to every rule, and I have met several lamas, notably the Phodong Lama of Sikhim and others like him, men who were thoroughly capable, who acted up

far be it

A disclaimer stating that something should not come to pass, or that a person would never do or think a certain thing.

Samuel 20:20, And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

Example Bank

He went to a far land.

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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.

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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

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You have all come far and you will go further.

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He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.

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Over time, his views moved far away from mine.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, far is marked as rare, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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