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far

/fɑː//fɑɹ/

far adjective: distant; remote in space.

Adjective

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest or farthermost or furthermost)

  1. 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 9:6
    Synonyms:
    distant
  2. Remote in time.
    • the far far future
  3. Long.
    • I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already2011, Peggy Woods, Ramblings from a Soul, page 42
  4. 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    • See those two mountains? The ogre lives on the far one.
  5. 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    • He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private.2010, William Alexander Patterson, 4th, The City Is served Bartholomew! to the American Prison!, page 118
  6. Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
    • As sensible maketh a man differ from a stone, in a far difference; for other Species, as Beasts, have the same difference, but reasonable is the nearest, whereby he differeth from a stone, beasts, and all other things.1657, Henry Ainsworth, Zachary Coke, The Art of Logick., page 26
    • Is there not a far difference between asking it up and urging it, Mr. Secretary?1979, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations, Military situation in the Far East - Volume 3, page 1737
  7. (not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
    • far heap; far memory; far pointer

Adverb

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    long
  2. Very much; by a great amount.
    • He was far richer than we'd thought.
    • The expense far exceeds what I expected.

Verb

far (third-person singular simple present fars, present participle farring, simple past and past participle farred)

  1. (rare, transitive) 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.1864, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis
    • […] 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.1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love

Noun (1)

far (uncountable)

  1. Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
    • A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108
    • Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'1857, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia

Noun (2)

far (plural fars)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A litter of piglets; a farrow.

Noun (3) capitalized: FAR

FAR (plural FARs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of floor area ratio.

Proper noun capitalized: FAR

FAR

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, proscribed) Initialism of Federal Aviation Regulations.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.

far meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

far in Hindi

remote in space
दूर dūr

far in Tamil

remote in space
தூரமான tūramāṉa

far in Urdu

remote in space
دور dūr

far in Bengali

remote in space
দুরে dure, দূর dur
more remote or longer of two
দুরের durer
at a great distance
দুরে dure
More languagesFewer languages
far in Telugu
దూరము dūramu
far in Malayalam
ദൂര dūra
far in Sanskrit
दूर dūrá
far in Pashto
لرې lëre
far in Tagalog
malayo
far in Arabic
بَعِيد baʕīd
far in Malay
jauh
far in Indonesian
jauh
far in Persian
دور dur
far in Thai
ไกล glai
far in Vietnamese
xa, xa xôi
far in Myanmar
ဝေးကွာ we:kwa

Examples of far in a sentence

  • He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.
  • Over time, his views moved far away from mine.
  • You've gone far enough. Actually, a bit too far.
  • I saw a tiny figure far below me.
  • This may not be at such a far remove from the endlessly recursive textual inventions of Kafka, Beckett, and Bernhard as it may seem.2014, Henry Sussman, Playful Intelligence: Digitizing Tradition, page 124:
  • Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

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Synonyms of far

Antonyms

Forms of far

Adjective
comparativefarther
comparativefurther
superlativefarthest
superlativefurthest
superlativefarthermost
superlativefurthermost
Adverb
comparativefarther
comparativefurther
superlativefarthest
superlativefurthest
Verb
third-person singular presentfars
present participlefarring
past participlefarred
pastfarred
Noun
pluralfars
pluralFARs

Origin of far

Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

From Latin far. Doublet of farro.

Words formed from far

Phrases with far

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Words that rhyme with far

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Questions about far

What does far mean?
Far means distant; remote in space.
What is far in Hindi?
Far in Hindi is दूर (dūr). See Far meaning in Hindi.
How do you use far in a sentence?
He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.
What part of speech is far?
Far can be an adjective, an adverb, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce far?
Far is pronounced /fɑː/ (UK).

Words near far in the dictionary

  1. faqs
  2. faqueer
  3. faqueers
  4. faquir
  5. faquirs
  6. far
  7. far and away
  8. far and wide
  9. far away
  10. far be it
  11. far breton

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