- 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.
- His shot was just inches wide of the far post (= of the goal).
- The sun slid behind the purple mountains in the far distance.
- 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).
- (old-fashioned or literary) a long distance away
- a far country
- Somewhere in the far regions of her mind a voice was screaming warnings.
Word OriginOld English feorr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ver, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit para and Greek pera ‘further’.
Idioms
See far in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee far in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englisha far cry from something
- a very different experience from something synonym remote
- All this luxury was a far cry from the poverty of his childhood.
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