far

Meanings

Adjective

• Distant; remote in space.
• Remote in time.
• Long.
• More remote of two.
• Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
• Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
• Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.

Adverb

• To, from or over a great distance in space, time or other extent.
• Very much; by a great amount.

Verb

• To send far away.

Noun

• Spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta), especially in the context of Roman use of it.
• A litter of piglets; a farrow.

Origin

• From Middle English ferre, fer, Old English feor, feorr, from Proto-Germanic *ferrai.
• From Latin far. Doublet of farro.