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faraway

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈfɑɹəweɪ//

Distant.

adjective

  1. 1

    Distant.

    She lived in a faraway village in a faraway land.

  2. 2

    Not mentally present, as when daydreaming.

    There was a faraway look on his face.

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

Etymology

Univerbation of far + away.

noun

  1. 1

    One who lives a great distance away.

    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.

Forms

plural
faraways
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).