faraway

See also: far away and far-away

English

Alternative forms

• far away, far-away

Etymology

Univerbation of far away (adverb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑɹəweɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

faraway (not generally comparable, comparative more faraway, superlative most faraway)

1. Distant or remote in time or space.

   Near-synonyms: far-off, far-flung, distant, remote; see also Thesaurus:distant

   She lived in a faraway village in a faraway land.

2. Not mentally present, as when daydreaming.

   Near-synonyms: distant, spaced-out, lost in thought, head in the clouds

   There was a faraway look on his face.

   • 1981, James Powell, chapter 16, in The Malpais Rider (A Double D Western), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 124:

     Suddenly it occurred to Mala why the unsaddlings and the faraway looks. All four of them were expecting something of a fairly long wait.

Derived terms

• farawayness

Related terms

• by far and away
• far and away
• far away (adverb)

Translations

distant or remote

• Arabic: بَعِيد (ar) (baʕīd)

  Egyptian Arabic: بعيد (beʕiid)

• Bulgarian: далечен (bg) (dalečen)
• Cherokee: ᎢᎾ (ina)
• Dutch: afgelegen (nl), ver weg
• Esperanto: fora (eo)
• 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)
• Turkish: uzak (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: اوزاق (uzak), ایراق (ırak)

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.