faraway
Americanadjective
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distant; remote.
faraway lands.
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dreamy, preoccupied.
a faraway look.
adjective
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very distant; remote
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dreamy or absent-minded
Etymology
Origin of faraway
Example Sentences
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Our annual spotlight on travel includes underrated U.S. cities and faraway lands worth the epic voyage they require.
Just giving a faraway niece or nephew the broad role of power of attorney isn’t going to be enough.
From MarketWatch
Archaeologists have recovered thousands of clay-fired cooking balls and materials brought from faraway regions, such as quartz crystal from Arkansas, soapstone from the Atlanta area, and copper ornaments originating near the Great Lakes.
From Science Daily
Around 436 B.C., a “quarrel in a faraway county” of which neither Athenians nor Spartans knew much broke out into civil war in the colony of Epidamnus.
No matter how the children called to it and waved, the faraway sheep only blinked and chewed its cud.
From Literature
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