单词 | faraway |
释义 | faraway (once / 7938 pages) adj Something that's distant from you is faraway. Your faraway pen pal's letters might take over a week to arrive in your mailbox. You can describe something that's far off or removed from you with the adjective faraway — and you can also use it for things that only feel distant, or that happened a long time ago. Your faraway childhood or the faraway history of your town's oldest building are a couple of examples. This word can also be correctly spelled with a hyphen, far-away, or as two words, far away. WORD FAMILYfaraway: farawayness USAGE EXAMPLESThe sense of isolation from the modern metropolises on the faraway coast persists. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) And world peace is still a faraway concept. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Akerman explained that “No Home Movie” was about rooms and faraway places but “above all” about her mother, Natalia, a Holocaust survivor, “but not only.” New York Times(Dec 07, 2016) 1adj very far away in space or time faraway mountains the faraway future Syn far-off far located at a great distance in time or space or degree 2adj far removed mentally a faraway (or distant) look in her eyes Syn distant, remote far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship |
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