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• far away, far-away

Univerbation of far +‎ away.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɑɹəweɪ/

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faraway (not comparable)

1. Distant.

   She lived in a faraway village in a faraway land.

2. Not mentally present, as when daydreaming.

   There was a faraway look on his face.

   • 1981, James Powell, chapter 16, in The Malpais Rider (A Double D Western), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →ISBN, page 124:

     Suddenly it occurred to Mala why the unsaddlings and the faraway looks. All four of them were expecting something of a fairly long wait.

• far-flung, remote; see also Thesaurus:distant

faraway (plural faraways)

1. One who lives a great distance away.
   • 2004, Richard Benke, The Ghost Ocean, page 182:

     The Neighbors, the enviros, the real and the want-to-be cowpokes, the locals and the faraways, the rich and the wishful, the purported miners all said they wanted to buy out Braden.