out and away

1. 1.

   by a considerable margin

   “she was by far the smartest student”

   “it was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten”

   Synonymsby farfar and away

Questions about out and away

What does out and away mean?

out and away means "by a considerable margin".

What is another word for out and away?

Close synonyms include by far, far and away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is out and away a common word?

out and away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.