FARAWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faraway mean? 

• FARAWAY (adjective)
  The adjective FARAWAY has 2 senses:

1. very far away in space or time

2. far removed mentally

  Familiarity information: FARAWAY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARAWAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very far away in space or time

Synonyms:

far-off; faraway

Context example:

far-off happier times

Similar:

far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)

Derivation:

farawayness (the property of being remote)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Far removed mentally

Context example:

a faraway (or distant) look in her eyes

Similar:

distant; remote (far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship)

 Context examples 

I believe the silly fellows must have thought they would break their shins over treasure as soon as they were landed, for they all came out of their sulks in a moment and gave a cheer that started the echo in a faraway hill and sent the birds once more flying and squalling round the anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But through a quirk of nature that tremendously amplifies the star’s feeble glow, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to pinpoint this faraway star and set a new distance record.

(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)

Using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope, a team of astronomers has captured for the first time an image of large-scale, coherent, magnetic fields in the halo of a faraway spiral galaxy, confirming theoretical modeling of how galaxies generate magnetic fields and potentially increasing knowledge of how galaxies form and evolve.

(Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy's halo, National Science Foundation)

She always used to take his arm on these occasions, now she did not, and he made no complaint, which was a bad sign, but talked on rapidly about all sorts of faraway subjects, till they turned from the road into the little path that led homeward through the grove.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)