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Far   /fɑr/   Listen
adverb
Far  adv.  
1.
To a great extent or distance of space; widely; as, we are separated far from each other.
2.
To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.
3.
In great part; as, the day is far spent.
4.
In a great proportion; by many degrees; very much; deeply; greatly. "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies."
As far as, to the extent, or degree, that. See As far as, under As.
Far off.
(a)
At a great distance, absolutely or relatively.
(b)
Distant in sympathy or affection; alienated. "But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who some time were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ."
Far other, different by a great degree; not the same; quite unlike.
Far and near, at a distance and close by; throughout a whole region.
Far and wide, distantly and broadly; comprehensively. "Far and wide his eye commands."
From far, from a great distance; from a remote place. Note: Far often occurs in self-explaining compounds, such as far-extended, far-reaching, far-spread.


adjective
Far  adj.  (farther and farthest are used as the compar. and superl. of far, although they are corruptions arising from confusion with further and furthest)  
1.
Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent. "They said,... We be come from a far country." "The nations far and near contend in choice."
2.
Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.
3.
Remote in affection or obedience; at a distance, morally or spiritually; t enmity with; alienated. "They that are far from thee ahsll perish."
4.
Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character. "He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther."
5.
The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts. Note: The distinction between the adjectival and adverbial use of far is sometimes not easily discriminated.
By far, by much; by a great difference.
Far between, with a long distance (of space or time) between; at long intervals. "The examinations are few and far between."


noun
Far  n.  (Zool.) A young pig, or a litter of pigs.





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... have two strongholds far larger than that—Salisbury Plain and Newmarket Heath! [199]—strongholds that will contain fifty thousand men who need no walls but their shields. Count William, England's ramparts are her men, and her strongest castles are ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... we all went to bed, full of thankfulness that it had ended as well as it did, but, alas! not, so far as I was concerned, to rest in peace. In about two hours I was awakened by a tremendous weight of water suddenly descending upon me and flooding the bed. I immediately sprang out, only to find myself ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams
... whirls round, pulls his gun and fires into Mankeltow's face. I laid him out with my cleek automatically. Any one who shoots a friend of mine gets what's comin' to him if I'm within reach. He drops. Mankeltow rubs his neck with his handkerchief. The man the far side of the machine starts to run. Lundie down the ride, or it might have been Walen, shouts, "What's happened?" Mankeltow ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... likely of occurrence in the remote posterity she vows she is for addressing after she has exhausted our present hungry generation. The posterity signified will, it is calculable, it is next to certain, have studied a developed human nature so far as to know the composition of it a not unequal mixture of the philosophic and the romantic, and that credible realism is to be produced solely by an involvement of those two elements. Or else, she may be sure, her ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... would bring contamination to a scholar's library. Scot was certainly not a scholar in the sense in which the term is applied to the Scaligers, Casaubons, and Vossius's, though he would have been considered a prodigy of reading in these days of superficial acquisition. But he had original gifts far transcending scholarship. He had a manly, straightforward, vigorous understanding, which, united with an honest integrity of purpose, kept him right when greater men went wrong. How invaluable a phalanx would the battalion of folios which the reign of James the first produced now afford us, ...
— Discovery of Witches - The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster • Thomas Potts


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