faraway

[fahr-uh-wey]

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adjective

distant; remote: faraway lands.

dreamy, preoccupied: a faraway look.

Origin:
1810–20; far + away

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faraway (ˈfɑːrəˌweɪ)

—*adj*
1.	very distant; remote
2.	dreamy or absent-minded

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Word Origin & History

faraway

1816, from far + away.

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"Nature is a personality so vast and universal that we have never seen one of her features. The walker in the familiar fields which stretch around my native town sometimes finds himself in another land than is described in their owners' deeds, as it were in some faraway field on the confines of the actual Concord, where her jurisdiction ceases, and the idea which the word Concord suggests ceases to be suggested. These farms which I have myself surveyed, these bounds which I have set up, appear dimly still as through a mist; but they have no chemistry to fix them; they fade from the surface of the glass, and the picture which the painter painted stands out dimly from beneath. The world with which we are commonly acquainted leaves no trace, and it will have no anniversary."

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