English Explanatory Dictionary

far

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Distant; remote in space.
  2. Remote in time.
  3. Long.
  4. More remote of two.
  5. Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
  6. Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
  7. Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
adv
  1. To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
  2. Very much; by a great amount.
verb
  1. To send far away.
noun
  1. Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
noun
  1. A litter of piglets; a farrow.
noun
  1. Initialism of floor area ratio.
name
  1. Initialism of Federal Aviation Regulations.
  2. Initialism of Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.

Pronunciation

fär /fɑː/ En-uk-far.ogg /fɑɹ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-far.wav en-us-far.ogg /fɐː/ /faː/ /faɹ/ /fɑ(r)/ /fæːɹ/

Word forms

far farther further farthest furthest farthermost furthermost fars farring farred

Etymology

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

Synonyms

distant long

Antonyms

close near

Related words

far breton

Derived words

a bridge too far afar a far remove as far as as far as I can throw you as far as I'm concerned as far as one knows as far as the eye can see as far as the eye could see by far by far and away cast one's net far and wide far and away far and wide far away faraway far be it Far Cotton far cry far-famed far far away far-feeling farfetch far fetched far-fetched far-field far field far-flung Far Forest far from far from it fargoing far gone far-left far left far-lefter far leftist far-leftist farmost farness Far North far-off far off far-out far out far point far post farreaching far-reaching far removed far-right far right far-righter far-rightist far rightist Far Sawrey farsee far-seeing farseeing farseer

Translations

Catalan: extrem Chinese Mandarin: 極端 /极端 Chinese Mandarin: 極 /极 Finnish: äärimmäinen Finnish: ääri- French: extrême Portuguese: extremo Portuguese: extrema Romanian: extrem Spanish: extremo Swedish: ytterst Swedish: extrem
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