英和和英

語源

Univerbation of far +‎ away.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɑɹəweɪ/

形容詞

faraway (not comparable)

1. Distant.

   She lived in a faraway village in a faraway land.

2. Not mentally present, as when daydreaming.

   There was a faraway look on his face.

   • 1981, James Powell, chapter 16, in The Malpais Rider (A Double D Western), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 124:

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

同意語

• far-flung, remote; see also Thesaurus:distant

派生語

関連する語

名詞

faraway (plural faraways)

1. One who lives a great distance away.
   • 2004, Richard Benke, The Ghost Ocean, page 182:

     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.

参照

形容詞

far away (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of faraway.

副詞

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

1. To or at a great distance.

   Synonym: distantly

   Synonym: afar (literary)

   She lived far away, in a distant land.

   • 1971, Gordon A. Bennett, Ronald N. Montaperto, “Prologue: Life Before the Cultural Revolution”, in Red Guard: The Political Biography of Dai Hsiao-ai‎, Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, published 1980, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:

     Most positions of leadership were in the hands of Hakkas and students from Shant’ou, since they were farthest away from home and consequently most willing to devote time to school activities.

参考

• far and away