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say it: fahr
far is an adverb, adjective and noun meaning "to a considerable degree; very much". It is pronounced /ˈfɑɹ/ — fahr. It carries 10 recorded senses.
to a considerable degree; very much
“a far far better thing that I do”
“felt far worse than yesterday”
“eyes far too close together”
at or to or from a great distance in space
“he traveled far”
“strayed far from home”
“sat far away from each other”
at or to a certain point or degree
“I can only go so far before I have to give up”
“how far can we get with this kind of argument?”
remote in time
“if we could see far into the future”
“all that happened far in the past”
to an advanced stage or point
“a young man who will go very far”
located at a great distance in time or space or degree
“we come from a far country”
“far corners of the earth”
“the far future”
“a far journey”
“the far side of the road”
“far from the truth”
“far in the future”
being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle
“the horse on the right is the far horse”
“the right side is the far side of the horse”
a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again
“in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists”
Rwanda · terrorism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for far come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.