Far West

noun

1. the area of the U.S. west of the Great Plains.

Far West

1. A term often applied to the states between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

Other Word Forms

• Far Western adjective

Example Sentences

Exploiting a series of portages linking Lake Michigan and local rivers, they paddled their canoes from Canada’s Atlantic shore to the Gulf of Mexico and as far west as the Rocky Mountains.

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In between, it was Lutsk in the far west.

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Indian passports were issued as far west as Aden in modern Yemen, which functioned as India's westernmost port and was administered as part of Bombay Province.

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It has now been detected in wild birds across much of southern England, at least as far west as Dorset and as far north as Cambridgeshire.

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At his very final stop in the far West, in the isolation of Victoria, Vancouver Island, with only half an hour of campaigning allowed, Carney went "unplugged" among supporters.

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