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faraway en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɑɹəweɪ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Univerbation of far + away.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Distant.
   • She lived in a faraway village in a faraway land.
2. (not-comparable) Not mentally present, as when daydreaming.
   • 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:
   • There was a faraway look on his face.

Forms

Deriveds

farawayness

Relateds

far and away · far away

Synonyms

far-flung · remote

Translations (28)

de entfernt (distant) · izh etähäin (distant) · fi kaukainen (distant) · chr ᎢᎾ (distant) · it lontano (distant) · ota اوزاق (distant) · bg далечен (distant) · nl afgelegen (distant) · arz بعيد (distant) · gl afastado (distant) · es distante (distant) · eo fora (distant) · nl ver weg (distant) · hu messzi (distant) · mk ра́сеан (not mentally present) · tr uzak (distant) · it remoto (distant) · es lejano (distant) · mk да́лечен (distant) · hu távoli (distant) · es alejado (distant) · ar بَعِيد (distant) · de abgelegen (distant) · ota ایراق (distant) · pt longínquo (distant) · it fuorimano (distant) · de abwesend (not mentally present) · sa दूर (distant)

faraway en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɑɹəweɪ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Univerbation of far + away.

Meanings

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:

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