Faraway Meaning
/ˈfɑɹəweɪ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjDistant.
adjNot mentally present, as when daydreaming.
Sentence Examples
One can see faraway objects with a telescope.
He and I are from a faraway country.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The traveler dreamt of a ____ land where he could start a new life.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In the ____ distance, she could see the faint outline of the mountains against the evening sky.
Word Origin & History
Univerbation of far + away.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The traveler dreamt of a ____ land where he could start a new life.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In the ____ distance, she could see the faint outline of the mountains against the evening sky.