Far Meaning
/fɑː/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjDistant; remote in space.
adjRemote in time.
Sentence Examples
I want a boat that will take me far away from here.
Is it far from here?
I saw her on the far side of the road.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The nearest gas station is ____ from here, so we need to conserve fuel.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The nearest grocery store is too ____ to walk to, so we will have to take the car.
Word Origin & History
Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: Now therefore make ye a league with vs."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 9:6:
"Tsiolkas's Europe, as voraciously predatory as his own undead protagonist, is a far cry from the fount of idealistic humanism dreamed up by generations of both pre- and post-Enlightenment politicians and philosophers, a Europe defined by its durable capacity for civility in an otherwise barbarous world."
— 2009, Graham Huggan, Ian Law, Racism Postcolonialism Europe, page 1:
"I have such a long way to go but yet I have come such a far piece already"
— 2011, Peggy Woods, Ramblings from a Soul, page 42:
"At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook."
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"He was withdrawn to such a far degree that it required of Piers and Jude a good deal of occasional conferencing between the two of them, in private."
— 2010, William Alexander Patterson, 4th, The City Is served Bartholomew! to the American Prison!, page 118:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The nearest gas station is ____ from here, so we need to conserve fuel.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The nearest grocery store is too ____ to walk to, so we will have to take the car.