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far-off

[ fahr-awf, -of ]

adjective

  1. distant; remote.


far-off

adjective

  1. remote in space or time; distant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of far-off1

First recorded in 1580–90
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Example Sentences

But the two of them are enthusiastic supporters of getting the human race to far-off stars.

There were long brown mountains and a few pines and far-off forests of beech-trees on some of the mountainsides.

The boom in transportation, be it highways or commercial aviation, allowed people to access far-off destinations with ease.

But a day focused on the continued violence against LGBT people in far-off places?

It's already out there, waiting for you just outside of some far-off hospital maternity ward.

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.

Consequently Tchaikovsky delighted in hearing her recall the joys and sorrows of those far-off days.

The people who lived in those far-off days had no special occasion to know or to care what time it was.

And her sides shone red as blood—red as they had shone on the grassy lawn of an old chateau near far-off Vienna.

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