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Word far
WordType (adjective)
Phonetic BrE / fɑː(r) / NAmE / fɑːr /
Example
  • i saw her on the far side of the road.
  • at the far end of the room
  • they made for an empty table in the far corner.
  • the far north of scotland
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far

(adjective)BrE / fɑː(r) / NAmE / fɑːr /
  1. at a greater distance away from you
    • I saw her on the far side of the road.
    • at the far end of the room
    • They made for an empty table in the far corner.
  2. at the furthest point in a particular direction
    • the far north of Scotland
    • Who is that on the far left of the photograph?
    • She is on the far right of the party (= holds extreme right-wing political views).
  3. a long distance away
    • a far country
    • Somewhere in the far regions of her mind a voice was screaming warnings.
  4. a very different experience from something
    • synonym remote
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/remote_1
    • All this luxury was a far cry from the poverty of his childhood.

    Word Origin

    • Old English feorr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ver, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit para and Greek pera ‘further’.
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