far

From Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go over”). Cognate with Middle Low German vere, Dutch ver, and German fern.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɑː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

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

1. (archaic or dated, Scotland, Northern England) Distant; remote in space.

   He went to a far land.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Joshua 9:6:

     And they went to Ioshua vnto the campe at Gilgal, and said vnto him, and to the men of Israel, Wee be come from a farre countrey: Now therefore make ye a league with vs.

2. Remote in time.
3. Long. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. More remote or longer of two.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 19, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

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

5. Extreme, as measured from some central position.

   We are on the far right on this issue.

6. Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character.
   • F. Anstey

     He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther.

7. (computing, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.

   far heap; far memory; far pointer

• (remote in space): distant, far; see also Thesaurus:distant

• (remote in space): close, near; see also Thesaurus:near

• afar
• faraway
• farness

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

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

1. Distant in space, time or degree.

   My house is quite far from the beach.  The plan is good, but it is far from being flawless.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175, page 048:

     It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

2. To or from a great distance, time, or degree.

   You have all come far and you will go farther.

3. (with a comparative) Very much.

   He was far richer than we'd thought.

   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

     The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.

From Latin far. Doublet of farro.

far (uncountable)

1. Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
   • 1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108

     A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ...

   • 1857, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia:

     Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.'

   • 1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Brides and Bridals, volume 1, page 201:

     Our wedding-cake is the memorial of a practice, that bore a striking resemblance to, if it was not derived from, confarreatio, the form of marriage that had fallen into general disuse amongst the Romans in the time of Tiberius. Taking its name from the cake of far and mola salsa that was broken over the bride's head, confarreatio was attended with an incident that increases its resemblance to the way in which our ancestors used at their weddings objects symbolical of natural plentifulness.

   • 1919, Carl Holliday, Wedding Customs Then and Now, page 32:

     The early Romans broke a cake of far and mola salsa (salted meal) over the bride's head, — a symbol of plentifulness, […]

far (plural fars)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A litter of piglets; a farrow.

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

Borrowed from Latin Pharus.

far m

1. lighthouse

From Latin pharus, from Pharus, from Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pháros).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfar/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

far m (plural fars)

1. lighthouse
2. headlight

• “far” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “far” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “far” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “far” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

far ?

1. fern

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

far

1. Alternative form of facro

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

• Rhymes: -aːr

far c (singular definite faren, plural indefinite fædre)

1. father, dad

• fader

• mor, moder
• bror, søster, søskende
• søn, datter

• “far” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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far

1. (neologism) by[1]

   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

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).

From Old Norse far.

• IPA^(key): /fɛaːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːɹ
• Homophone: fær

far n (genitive singular fars, plural før)

1. drive, ride, tour
2. vessel
3. trace, sign

• akfar
• flogfar
• fiskifar
• fótafar
• fingrafar
• farmaður
• havfar
• hugfar
• keldufar
• orðafar
• rúmdarfar
• sjófar
• umfar
• tilfar
• tíggjumannafar
• áttamannafar
• áarfar

• IPA^(key): /faʁ/

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far m (plural fars)

1. A traditional Breton cake

• “far” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Proto-Uralic *ponče (“tail”).[1] Older hypotheses have attempted to derive far from Proto-Uralic *pure- (“back, rear”) or Proto-Finno-Ugric *perä (“back, rear”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒr]

far (plural farok)

1. buttock, posterior

   Synonyms: fenék, ülep, hátsó, segg

2. stern (ship)
3. tail, rear (vehicle)

• farol

(Compound words):

• farzseb

• IPA^(key): /faːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

far n (genitive singular fars, nominative plural för)

1. passage, ride

   Má ég fá far?

   Can I get a ride?

2. imprint, trace
3. character, personality

• flutningur
• merki

• fá far (to get a ride, to get a lift)
• gera sér far um
• hjakka í sama farinu
• í fari hans
• sækja í sama farið

• skutl
• skutla

• raf

far

1. Apocopic form of fare

• fra

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰars- (“spike, prickle”) (compare Welsh bara (“bread”), English barley, Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно, brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”)).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /faːr/

fār n (genitive farris); third declension

1. spelt (type of wheat) (Triticum spelta)
2. coarse meal; grits

Third declension neuter.

• English: far
• Galician: farelo
• Italian: farro
  • → English: farro
• Portuguese: farelo

From Arabic فَأْر‎ (faʾr, “mouse”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɐːr/

far m (plural firien)

1. rat

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

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

1. a father

• pappa
• fader

• mor, mamma
• bror, søster, søsken
• sønn, datter

far

1. imperative of fare

• IPA^(key): /fɑːr/

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

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

1. father

• pappa
• fader

• mor, mamma
• bror, syster, sysken
• son, dotter

From Old Norse far.

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

1. trace, track

• spor

far

1. imperative of fara

• “far” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /fa/

far

1. Alternative form of faire

far m (plural fars)

1. (nautical) lighthouse

far

1. Alternative form of for

• faire
• fare

From Latin facere, present active infinitive of faciō.

• IPA^(key): /far/

far

1. to do
   • c. 1130, Jaufre Rudel, canso:

     Dieus que fetz tot qunt ve ni vai / E formet sest'amor de lonh / Mi don poder [...].

     God, who makes everything that comes or goes and who created this distant love, give me power.

• Catalan: fer
• Occitan: far, fer, faire

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

fār n

1. sheep

• Swedish: får

Borrowed from Latin Pharus, French phare.

far n (plural faruri)

1. lighthouse
2. (figuratively) beacon
3. car headlight

• (Puter) fer

From Latin faciō, facere.

far

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) to do, make

far

1. where (relative/non-interrogative)

   Bha e cunnartach far an robh am balach ag iasgach. - It was dangerous where the boy was fishing.

far

1. Alternative form of bhàrr

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːr/

far c

1. father

far

1. imperative of fara.
2. present tense of fara.

• far in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.
• far in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Borrowed from French phare.

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

1. headlight

Borrowed from French fard.

far (definite accusative farı, plural farlar)

1. eye shadow

• (eye shadow): göz farı

From Latin facere (compare Italian fare), present active infinitive of faciō.

far

1. (transitive) to do
2. (transitive) to make
3. (transitive) to act, operate
4. (transitive) to study

• IPA^(key): [faɾ]

far (plural fars)

1. lighthouse

• laramamalet
• lefilamalet
• malet
• maletam
• maletadomil
• maletahorn
• maletamöp
• tüm

From Old Norse faðir, feðr, -faðr, -fǫðr, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).

• fær, fär, fer

• IPA^(key): /fɑːr/, /faːr/, /fæːr/, /feːr/

far m (definite farin or far’n, vocative fare)

1. father

   Han fekk säg ä bra tag, då’n einsamen ärvd farin

   He got a good advantage when he alone inherited the father.

   Hä var grannars far’n dill å håll prästa i år men han hadd int’ na dill å påhåll.

   It was the father of the house in the neighbouring farm's turn to be priest-host (during house hearings) this year, but he lacked what was required.

• pååpp

• farsfar
• farrbror
• gufar

• måor, mååmm
• bråor, söster, syskan
• sahn, doter
• faddar

From Old Norse for, from Proto-Germanic *furhs.

• IPA^(key): /fɑːr/, /fɒːr/, /fɔːr/

far f (definite fara, plural fara, definite plural farana)

1. furrow

• får

• restefar

far n

1. Alternative form of fær

From Old Norse fær, *fāʀ, from Proto-Germanic *fahaz, from Proto-Indo-European *póḱos.

• IPA^(key): [fóːɾ], [fɒ́ːɾ], [fɑ́ːɾ]
  • Rhymes: -óːr

far n

1. Sheep.

• dȧs
• däll

far

1. Alternative form of fær