far-flung
Collocations
4ADJ.
battle-line, full
VERB + FAR-FLUNG
traveled
FAR-FLUNG + NOUN
area, destinations, god, london, lord, theories
PREP.
in, without
Definitions
adj
Distant or remote in relationship, space, or time.
God of our fathers, known of old, / Lord of our far-flung battle-line, / […] / Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, / Lest we forget—lest we forget!
Introduced in the 1960s, Motorail was successful at a time when long-distance travel by car was a time-consuming process because of a lack of motorways. Services, both during the day and at night, ran to such far-flung places on the map as Penzance, Fishguard, Inverness and Fort William.
Widely distributed, wide-ranging, or widespread.
In the spacious laboratories and offices […] are provided not only centralised chemical research facilities for the far-flung London area, but also accommodation for the national headquarters of the B.R. Chemical Services, […]
In her introductory essay, editor Carole Vance acknowledges the problem of women's status as an "understudied group." She invites both careful and far-flung conversation about sex and difference, and urges s to resist making generalizations based on an incomplete dialogue.
Widely but sparsely distributed.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — distributed over a considerable extent
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5God of our fathers, known of old, / Lord of our far-flung battle-line, / […] / Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, / Lest we forget—lest we forget!
WiktionaryIntroduced in the 1960s, Motorail was successful at a time when long-distance travel by car was a time-consuming process because of a lack of motorways. Services, both during the day and at night, ran
WiktionaryIn the spacious laboratories and offices […] are provided not only centralised chemical research facilities for the far-flung London area, but also accommodation for the national headquarters of the B
WiktionaryThe book is full of far-flung theories without any basis in scientific fact.
Tatoeba · #1927952Yanni traveled to far-flung destinations in search of big game. He was a good hunter.
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