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Meaning of far

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  far
      adv 1: to a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better
             thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes
             far too close together"
      2: at or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled
         far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other"
      3: at or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far
         before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind
         of argument?"
      4: remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all
         that happened far in the past"
      5: to an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very
         far"
      adj 1: located at a great distance in time or space or degree;
             "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth";
             "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the
             road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" [ant:
             {close}, {near}, {nigh}]
      2: being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek"
      3: being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the
         right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right
         is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the
         horse"
      4: beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right"
      n 1: a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the
           government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control
           again; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight
           foreign tourists" [syn: {Army for the Liberation of
           Rwanda}, {ALIR}, {Former Armed Forces}, {FAR},
           {Interahamwe}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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