adj
Meaning 1
Distant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- She lived in a faraway village in a faraway land.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
faraway
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Not mentally present, as when daydreaming.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- There was a faraway look on his face.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
One who lives a great distance away.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
very far away in space or time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- faraway mountains
- the faraway future
- troops landing on far-off shores
- far-off happier times
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: far-off
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
far removed mentally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a faraway (or distant) look in her eyes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Univerbation of far + away.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بَعِيد (baʕīd) — distant
- Arabic: بعيد (beʕiid) — distant
- Bulgarian: далечен (dalečen) — distant
- Cherokee: ᎢᎾ (ina) — distant
- Dutch: afgelegen — distant
- Dutch: ver weg — distant
- Finnish: kaukainen — distant
- Galician: afastado — distant
- German: abgelegen — distant
- German: entfernt — distant
- Hungarian: távoli — distant
- Hungarian: messzi — distant
- Ingrian: etähäin — distant
- Italian: remoto — distant
- Italian: lontano — distant
- Italian: fuorimano — distant
- Macedonian: да́лечен (dálečen) — distant
- Portuguese: longínquo — distant
- Sanskrit: दूर (dūra) — distant
- Spanish: alejado — distant
- Spanish: distante — distant
- Spanish: lejano — distant
- Turkish: uzak — distant
- Ottoman Turkish: اوزاق (uzak) — distant
- Ottoman Turkish: ایراق (ırak) — distant
- German: abwesend — not mentally present
- Macedonian: ра́сеан (rásean) — not mentally present
Real reading context