far

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of far in English

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English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɑː/
(General American) IPA^(key): /fɑɹ/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Adjective

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest or farthermost or furthermost)

Distant; remote in space.
Remote in time.
the far far future
Long. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
More remote of two.
Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
(programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.

Usage notes

Comparable senses often repeat the adjective to intensify the meaning rather than using very as most other adjectives do. For example, one may speak of the far far future rather than the very far future.

Synonyms

(remote in space): distant; see also Thesaurus:distant

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “remote in space”): close, near; see also Thesaurus:near

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

far (comparative farther or further, superlative farthest or furthest)

To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
Very much; by a great amount.

Usage notes

As with the adjective, the adverb sense is often repeated for intensive meaning. A foul-tasting drink may be far far worse than what one expected.

Translations

Verb

far (third-person singular simple present fars, present participle farring, simple past and past participle farred)

(transitive, rare) To send far away.

Etymology 2

From Latin far. Doublet of farro.

Noun

far (uncountable)

Emmer (a type of wheat), especially in the context of Roman use of it.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

far (plural fars)

(UK, dialect) A litter of piglets; a farrow.

Anagrams

'arf, AFR, AFr., ARF, Afr., FRA, Fra, RAF, RFA, arf, fra

Albanian

Etymology

Latin Pharus. +

Noun

far m

lighthouse

Catalan

Etymology

Derived from Latin pharus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfar]
Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

far m (plural fars)

lighthouse
headlight

Related terms

farola

Champenois

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ferrum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /far/

Noun

far m (plural fars)

(Troyen, Rémois) iron

References

Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[2] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[3] (in French), Troyes

Cimbrian

Noun

far ?

fern

References

Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dalmatian

Verb

far

Alternative form of fur

Danish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɑː/, [fɑ̈ː]
Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

far c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite fædre)

father, dad

Inflection

Synonyms

fader

Coordinate terms

Esperanto

Etymology

Back-formation from fari (“to do, to make”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /far/
Rhymes: -ar
Hyphenation: far

Preposition

far

(neologism) by
La libro de Johano far Ŝekspiro
John's book by Shakespeare

regado de la popolo, far la popolo, kaj por la popolo
government of the people, by the people, and for the people

Synonyms: de, fare de

Usage notes

Unofficial. The most common innovative preposition, far is used for some of the functions of the preposition de "of, from, by", which some authors feel is overworked. Useful to distinguish, for example, the owner of a book (de) from the author (far).

References

Faroese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse far.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɛaːɹ/,Fugloy dialect: IPA^(key): [fɛːɹ]
Rhymes: -ɛaːɹ
Homophone: fær

Noun

far n (genitive singular fars, plural før)

drive, ride, tour
vessel
trace, sign

Declension

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /faʁ/

Noun

far m (plural fars)

a traditional Breton cake
Synonym: far breton

Hungarian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Uralic *ponče (“tail”). Older hypotheses have attempted to derive far from Proto-Uralic *pure- (“back, rear”) or Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä (“back, rear”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈfɒr]
Rhymes: -ɒr

Noun

far (plural farok)

buttock, posterior
Synonyms: fenék, ülep, hátsó, segg
stern (ship)
tail, rear (vehicle)

Declension

Derived terms

farol
farú

References

Icelandic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse fǫr (“journey”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /faːr/
Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

far n (genitive singular fars, nominative plural för)

passage, ride
imprint, trace
character, personality

Declension

Synonyms

flutningur
merki

Derived terms

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

far (apocopated)

Apocopic form of fare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fars (“flour, grain”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”); compare Welsh bara (“bread”), English barley, Serbo-Croatian brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φηρῶν (Phērôn, “plant deity”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfar/, [ˈfär]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfar/, [ˈfär]
(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfar.r/, [ˈfärː] (before a vowel)

The nominative-accusative singular form scans as a long syllable in Ovid (cited below). Therefore, some sources mark the vowel in this form as long (fār), but an alternative explanation is that despite being spelled with a single letter r, this word form was pronounced with the underlying geminate /rr/ of the stem when the following word started with a vowel.

Noun

far n (genitive farris); third declension

farro, a type of hulled wheat. (Most likely emmer (Triticum dicoccum or Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccon) but often mistranslated as spelt (Triticum spelta))
- ― Fay Glinister, “Festus and Ritual Foodstuffs” p. 220
coarse meal; grits

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Franco-Provençal: far
Galician: farelo
Italian: farro
- → English: farro
Portuguese: farelo
Sicilian: farru
→ English: far

References

Maltese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /faːr/
Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1

Inherited from Arabic فَأْر (faʔr, “mouse”).

Noun

far m (plural firien or fariet, feminine fara)

rat
Synonym: ġurdien
Y-shaped frame of a slingshot

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Arabic فارَ (fāra).

Verb

far (imperfect jfur, verbal noun fawran)

to overflow

Conjugation

Middle English

Noun

far

Alternative form of fare

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Derived from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Compare longer version fader.

Noun

far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedre, definite plural fedrene)

father

Synonyms

pappa
fader

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Kven: faari

Etymology 2

Verb

far

imperative of fare

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɑːr/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Compare longer version fader.

Noun

far m (definite singular faren, indefinite plural fedrar, definite plural fedrane)

father

Inflection

Synonyms

pappa
fader

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse far, from Proto-Germanic *farą.

Noun

far n (definite singular faret, indefinite plural far, definite plural fara)

trace, track

Synonyms

spor n
laup n

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

far

imperative of fara

References

“far” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fa/

Etymology 1

Noun

far m (plural fars)

(nautical) lighthouse

Etymology 2

Verb

far

Alternative form of faire

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɑr/

Verb

far

singular imperative of faran

Old Irish

Determiner

far

Alternative form of for

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Norse *ᚠᚨᚱᚨ (*fara), from Proto-Germanic *farą.

Noun

far n (genitive fars, plural fǫr)

a means of passage
passage
trace, print, track
life, conduct, behaviour
state, condition

Declension

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

far

second-person singular imperative active of fara

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

faire, fare

Etymology

Inherited from Latin facere.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /far/

Verb

far

to do
- c. 1130, Jaufre Rudel, canso:

Descendants

Occitan: far, fer, faire

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

ᚠᛆᚱ

Etymology

From (eastern) Old Norse *fāʀ (Old West Norse fær), from Proto-Germanic *fahaz.

Noun

fār n

sheep

Declension

Descendants

Swedish: får

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Pharus, French phare.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /far/
Rhymes: -ar

Noun

far n (plural faruri)

lighthouse
(figuratively) beacon
car headlight

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

fer (Puter)

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

Verb

far (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)

to do
to make

Conjugation

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

Possibly from Middle Irish i mbaile (“where”) from Old Irish baile (“place”) (with later early modern forms like a bhail a bhfuil, bhal a bhfuil) or from Old Irish fail (“where”), perhaps influenced by mar (“as, like”), related to Irish mar (“where”).

Adverb

far

where (relative/non-interrogative)
Bha e cunnartach far an robh am balach ag iasgach. ― It was dangerous where the boy was fishing.

References

R. A. Breatnach (1973) “The relative adverb mar a”, in Celtica, volume 10, pages 167–170: “As regards Sc. far a, all I can suggest is that the initial f- is possibly to be referred to the /v-/ variants instanced among the M.Ir. forms of baile i listed above. But fail may be a more likely influence;”
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 baile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? 1 bail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

Clipping of de bhàrr

Alternative forms

bhàrr

Preposition

far (+ genitive)

(down) from, off
thuit e far eich ― he fell off a horse

Spanish

Verb

far (first-person singular present fo, first-person singular preterite fe, past participle fado)

Obsolete spelling of hacer.

Swedish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɑːr/

Etymology 1

Short for fader, from Old Norse faðir, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

Noun

far c

father

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

far

inflection of fara:
1. imperative
2. present indicative

Etymology 3

Short for farled.

Noun

far n

(nautical, Finland) Short for farled.

References

far in Svensk ordbok (SO)
far in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
far in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

FRA, arf, fra.

Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French phare.

Noun

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

headlight

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French fard.

Noun

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

eye shadow

Declension

Synonyms

(eye shadow): göz farı

Venetan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin fāre.

Verb

far

(transitive) to do, to make; to act, operate
(transitive) to study

Volapük

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [faɾ]

Noun

far (nominative plural fars)

lighthouse

far

far

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Adjective

Usage notes

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

Usage notes

Translations

Verb

Etymology 2

Noun

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Noun

Catalan

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Related terms

Further reading

Champenois

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

References

Cimbrian

Noun

References

Dalmatian

Verb

Danish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

Synonyms

Coordinate terms

Further reading

Esperanto

Etymology

Pronunciation

Preposition

Usage notes

References

Faroese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Noun

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

Icelandic

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also