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faraway

/ˈfɑɹəweɪ/

faraway adjective: distant.

Adjective

faraway (not comparable)

  1. Distant.
    • She lived in a faraway village in a faraway land.
  2. Not mentally present, as when daydreaming.
    • There was a faraway look on his face.
    • Suddenly it occurred to Mala why the unsaddlings and the faraway looks. All four of them were expecting something of a fairly long wait.1981, James Powell, chapter 16, in The Malpais Rider (A Double D Western), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 124

Noun

faraway (plural faraways)

  1. One who lives a great distance away.
    • The Neighbors, the enviros, the real and the want-to-be cowpokes, the locals and the faraways, the rich and the wishful, the purported miners all said they wanted to buy out Braden.2004, Richard Benke, The Ghost Ocean, page 182

faraway meaning in Malayalam, Sanskrit and Arabic

faraway in Malayalam

far off, distant, far
ദൂര, ദൂരമായ, വിദൂരസ്ഥമായ, അകലെയുള്ള, വളരെ അകലെയുള്ള, വിദൂര
daydreaming, dreamy, abstracted
സ്വപ്നംകാണുന്ന, സ്വപ്നലോകത്തായ, ദിവാസ്വപ്നത്തിൽ മുഴുകിയ, അന്യചിന്തയിൽ മുഴുകിയ, മനസ്സ് മറ്റെങ്ങോ ആയ, മനസ്സുചിതറിയ

faraway in Sanskrit

distant
दूर dūra

faraway in Arabic

distant
بَعِيد baʕīd

Examples of faraway in a sentence

  • Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a beautiful princess.
  • They come from a faraway land.
  • “It was cold that day,” one says about some faraway memory.

All 14 example sentences with faraway

Synonyms of faraway

Forms of faraway

Adjective
alternative formfar away
alternative formfar-away
Noun
pluralfaraways

Origin of faraway

Univerbation of far + away.

Words formed from faraway

Questions about faraway

What does faraway mean?
Faraway means distant.
What is faraway in Malayalam?
Faraway in Malayalam is ദൂര, ദൂരമായ, വിദൂരസ്ഥമായ. See Faraway meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is faraway?
Faraway can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce faraway?
Faraway is pronounced /ˈfɑɹəweɪ/.

Words near faraway in the dictionary

  1. farasolas
  2. farasula
  3. farasulas
  4. faravahar
  5. faravahars
  6. faraway
  7. farawayness
  8. faraways
  9. faraz
  10. farazes
  11. farb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: faraway (page history and authors); faraway (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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