FAR AND NEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does far and near mean? 

• FAR AND NEAR (adverb)
  The adverb FAR AND NEAR has 1 sense:

1. over great areas or distances; everywhere

  Familiarity information: FAR AND NEAR used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAR AND NEAR (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Over great areas or distances; everywhere

Synonyms:

far and near; far and wide

Context example:

searched for the child far and near

 Context examples 

The peasants from far and near had been assembled for this deed of vengeance, and not less than six thousand were within or around the walls of the Chateau of Villefranche.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)