faraway

See also: far away

English

Alternative forms

• far away
• far-away

Etymology

Univerbation of far +‎ away.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

faraway (not comparable)

1. Distant.

   She lived in a faraway village in a faraway land.

2. Not mentally present, as when daydreaming.

   There was a faraway look on his face.

Synonyms

• far-flung, remote; see also Thesaurus:distant

Derived terms

• farawayness

Translations

distant

• Arabic: بَعِيد (ar) (baʕīd)

  Egyptian Arabic: بعيد (beʕiid)

• Bulgarian: далечен (bg) (dalečen)
• Cherokee: ᎢᎾ (ina)
• Dutch: afgelegen (nl), ver weg
• Finnish: kaukainen (fi)
• Galician: afastado
• German: abgelegen (de), entfernt (de)
• Hungarian: távoli (hu), messzi (hu)
• Ingrian: etähäin
• Italian: remoto (it), lontano (it), fuorimano
• Macedonian: да́лечен (dálečen)
• Portuguese: longínquo (pt)
• Sanskrit: दूर (sa) (dūra)
• Spanish: alejado (es), distante (es), lejano (es)

not mentally present

• German: abwesend (de)
• Macedonian: ра́сеан (rásean)

Noun

faraway (plural faraways)

1. One who lives a great distance away.
   • 2004, Richard Benke, The Ghost Ocean, page 182:

     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.

See also

• far and away