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farthermost

American  
[fahr-ther-mohst, -muhst] / ˈfɑr θərˌmoʊst, -məst /

adjective

  1. most distant or remote; farthest.


farthermost British  
/ ˈfɑːðəˌməʊst /

adjective

  1. most distant or remote

"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

Etymology

Origin of farthermost

First recorded in 1610–20; farther + -most

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"I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and romantic."

From Time Magazine Archive

Its farthermost point of 468 miles from the earth is only 32 miles higher than the low point.

From Time Magazine Archive

All we can really say is that if the universe is 10 billion years old, then light from the farthermost quasars has been on the way to us for more than 8 billion years.

From Time Magazine Archive

By week's end the alarm had spread to the farthermost corners of the Soviet empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was born with the wanderlust, with itching feet, with the urge to see what lay beyond the farthermost horizon.

From The Lost Warship by Williams, Robert Moore

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