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Faraway

Definitions: Faraway

Faraway

Adjective

1. Very far away in space or time; "faraway mountains"; "the faraway future"; "troops landing on far-off shores"; "far-off happier times".

2. Far removed mentally; "a faraway (or distant) look in her eyes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "faraway" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Faraway

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

FARAWAY

EnglishFusion of radar and ADS data through two way data linkComputing, Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Faraway

Synonym: far-off (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Faraway

English words defined with "faraway": far-off. (references)

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Modern Usage: Faraway

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Faraway Hill (1946)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Faraway

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Faraway

"Faraway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.84% of the time. "Faraway" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)96.84%9234,282
Noun (proper)3.16%3202,518
                    Total100.00%95N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Faraway

Expressions using "faraway": faraway lands faraway look faraway places with a faraway look. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Faraway

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

faraway

32

faraway so close

12

faraway magic tree

5

faraway tree

4

close faraway so stay

4

faraway farm

4

faraway holiday

3

a faraway place

3

faraway vol.2

3

the land of faraway

3

apocalypse faraway

3

apocalypse faraway lyrics

3

faraway holiday last minute

3

faraway inn

2

the faraway horse

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Faraway

Language Translations for "faraway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

largësi (carry, distance, milage, mileage, offset, race, space, way), i largët (distant, far, far off, long run, odd, off, out of the way, outer, remote, removed, slight, vague, way out), i humbur (dupe, forfeit, gone, lorn, loser, losing, lost, missing, stray, strayed, waste), ëndërrues (air-monger, castle builder, daydreamer, dreamer, fanciful). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متباعد (distant, far, remote, separate), ‏حالم (dreamer, dreamt, dreamy, moonstruck, starry eyed, visionary), ‏ذاهل (absent, at sea, distracted, distraught, moonstruck). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отдавнашен (far, long, old), отдалечен (back, distant, far, far off, inland, off, out, out of the way, outlandish, outlying, remote, removed, ulterior, unget-at-able), замечтан (dreamy, languishing, languorous, moony, pensive), блуждаещ (errant, erratic, excursive, planetary, vacant, vagrant), далечен (alien, distant, far, long, long distance, out-, out of the way, outlying, remote, removed). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

遥远 (Distant, Remote, remoteness). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zasnìný (dreamy, lost in dreams), vzdálený (distant, far, far flung, off, off the beaten track, outlying, remote, remove), nepřítomný (absent, blank, vacant), daleký (distant, far, long). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پریشان (Disconsolate, Disheveled, Heartsick), پرت (Aback, Desultory, Hurl, Remote, Solitary, Wide), خیلی دور, دورافتاده (Away, Outland, Outlying, Recluse, Unfrequented). (various references)

   

French

  

lointain (far, far off), loin (far, far away, too far). (various references)

   

German

  

weitentfernt. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πολύ μακριά (far), απομακρυσμένοσ (distant). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

רחוק (away, distance, distant, far, long, off, remoteness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

távoli (beyond the mark, distant, far, far off, far-off, off, outlying, remote, removed), messzi (distant, far, far-off, off, remote), távolról felvett kép, távol fekvő (far, far-off), messzi háttér. (various references)

   

Italian

  

lontano (a long way, absent, afar, aloof, apart, away, back, distant, distantly, faint, far, far afield, far off, in the distance, off, remote, slight, way, wide), distante (aloof, dislodges, distant, far, far away, off, remote), assente (absent, absentee, blank). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

遥か彼方 (far-off), (remoteness). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ゆうえ" (charming, deep and remote, elegant, fascinating, grand, remoteness), はるかかなた (far-off). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arawayfay

   

Portuguese

  

unidade de capacidade, remoto (ancient, asunder, away, back, distant, farraginous, farthest, long run, olden, out, out of the way, outlandish, outmaneuver, remote), longe (afar, afield, away, far, far and away, off, outlying, way), longínquo (outlying, remote), distante (apart, asunder, away, distant, far, long run, off, off and on, offish, outlandish, outlying, remote, removed). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

далекий (distant, far, outlying, remote). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dalek (alien, aloof, far, far flung, far off, farther, remote, removed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

remoto (ancient, distant, far, far off, lonely, outside, remote, removed), preocupado (concerned, disquiet, preoccupied, qualmish, solicitous, troubled, worried), muy lejos (a far cry from, far afield), lejano (distant, far, far off, farther, out of the way, outlying, remote, vital), distraído (absent, absentminded, absent-minded, abstracted, amusing, casual, distracted, distrait, dreamy, entertaining, heedless, inattentive, lackadaisical, moony, unobservant, untidy, vacant, vague, wandering), abstraído (absentminded, abstracted, bemused, preoccupied). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

frånvarande (absent, absent minded, absentee, absently, dreamy, far off, preoccupied), drömmande (dreamy, far off), avlägsen (distant, far, far away, far off, far out, far-off, out of the way, outlying, outlying land, remote, removed). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ห่างไกล. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uzun (extended, far off, interminable, Lang, lengthy, long, long-, macro-, maxi-, prolix, prolonged, tall), uzak (a long way off, afar, aloof, away, back, distant, far, far away, far off, insofar, off, out of the way, outlandish, outlying, recluse, remote, standoffish), hayal aleminde, dalgın (absent, absent minded, abstracted, deep, distrait, dreamy, engrossed, far away, far off, glassy, lost, meditative, moony, pensive, plunged in thought, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, ruminative, self-absorbed, stargazer, thoughtful, unheedful, vacant, vacuous, vague, wandering, wistful, woolgathering), dalıp gitmiş (far off, ruminant, self-absorbed). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

неуважний (absent, absentminded, abstracted, careless, distrait, erratic, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, mused, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, oscitant, outward, unmindful, vague), замріяний (bemused, moony, mused), далекий (far, long distance, off, old, out of the way, outlying). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Faraway

Misspellings

"Faraway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badawai, farakat, fayawan, fucawi, Karawya. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Faraway"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "faraway" (pronounced fÄ"ruwā)
3-u w ācutaway.

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Anagrams: Faraway

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-f-r-w-y"

-3 letters: afar, away, awry, fray, raya, wary.

-4 letters: arf, awa, far, fay, fry, raw, ray, rya, war, way, wry, yar, yaw.

-5 letters: aa, ar, aw, ay, fa, ya.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Faraway


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 72 61 77 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110111 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#114 &#97 &#119 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0072 0061 0077 0061 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40678467896791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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