far-off
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English
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[edit ]Univerbation of far off (adverb).
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[edit ]far-off (not generally comparable , comparative more far-off, superlative most far-off)
- Distant or remote (in space, or less commonly in time ).
- Near-synonyms: far-flung , faraway , distant , remote ; see also Thesaurus:distant
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, "The Heart of Darkness", in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, [...], →OCLC, part I, page 209:
- Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive, and wild - and perhaps with as respectable a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.
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