Meaning of far in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• Distant; remote in space.

  Example: He went to a far land.

• Remote in time.

  Example: the far future

• Long.

• More remote of two.

  Example: He moved to the far end of the state. She remained at this end.

• Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.

  Example: They are on the far right on this issue.

• Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.

• Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.

  Example: far heap; far memory; far pointer

adverb

• To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.

  Example: He built a time machine and travelled far into the future.

• Very much; by a great amount.

  Example: He was far richer than we'd thought.

noun

• Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it.

noun

• A litter of piglets; a farrow.