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Far And Away

Definition: Far And Away

Far And Away

Adverb

1. By a considerable margin; "she was by far the smartest student"; "it was far and away the best meal he had ever eaten".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Far And Away

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Far and Away "Nullus proximus aut secundus;" as, "far and away the best;" some person or thing beyond all comparison or rivalry. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms: Far And Away

Synonyms: by far (adv), out and away (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Far And Away

English words defined with "far and away": by farForwandernearbyout and away. (references)
Specialty definitions using "far and away": Loebner PrizeNational Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratoryproximity sensorRomancestage IV prostate cancer. (references)

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Modern Usage: Far And Away

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Far and Away (1992)

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Commercial Usage: Far And Away

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

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Familiar Quotations: Far And Away

AuthorQuotation

Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Far And Away

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Apparel exports from the United States to the U.K. total $117 million, making Britain by far and away the largest market for American clothes in Europe. (references)

Economic History

Nepal

Note: As of May 2001, India was far and away the most important foreign investor in Nepal, with over 35 percent of the projects. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights."

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Far And Away

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

far and away

54

far and away movie

12

far and away tom cruise

3
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Modern Translations: Far And Away

Language Translations for "far and away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shumë (amount, awful, awfully, badly, confoundedly, considerably, consumedly, damnably, dearly, deep, deuced, devilish, ever so, far, good few, greatly, heap, heartily, highly, jolly, largely, like mad, lot, lots of, lump, many, million, most, much, no end of, not a few, notedly, number, oodles, passing, passingly, Peck, poly-, precious, price, proceeds, quantum, quite, really, remarkably, scrip, so, sorely, sum, summation, thumping, too, tot, total, totality, umpteen, vastly, very, very much, widely), pa dyshim (admittedly, by all means, certainly, decidedly, definitely, distinctly, doubtless, ex cathedra, implicitly, out and out, quite so, sure enough, sure thing, surely, undoubtedly, unhesitatingly, without a doubt, without fail). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

несравнено, далеч (afar, afield, away, deep, distantly, far, far away, wide). (various references)

   

Czech

  

daleko široko. (various references)

   

German

  

weitaus (by far, far). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ב"חלט (absolutely, by all means, certainly, definitely, flat, quite so, rather). (various references)

   

Italian

  

di gran lunga (far, far apart). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

遥かに (by far, far, far off, in the distance, long ago), 飛抜けて (by all odds, by far). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

はるかに (by far, far, far off, in the distance, long ago), とびぬけて (by all odds, by far). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arfay anday awayay

   

Portuguese

  

longe (afar, afield, away, far, faraway, off, outlying, way). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

foarte mult (a good deal of, a great deal of, dearly, excessively, fat job, greatly, largely), cu mult mai mult (by long chalk), cu mult (lot, much, out and away). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

значительно (amain, appreciably, apreciably, by far, by long odds, considerably, far [d], materially, notably, noticeably, significantly, sizably, to a degree, tremendously, vastly). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kudikamo, daleko (afar, aloof, away, far, off, remotely). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sin la menor duda, mucho (a fat lot, a good deal, a great deal, a lot, a lot of, all the, badly, bags of, far, greatly, hard, heaps of, heavily, lot, lots of, much, not a few, oft, often, plenty of, sharply, significant, sorely, thick, very). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ojämförligt (by all odds), med god marginal. (various references)

   

Thai

  

อย่างแน่นอน (certainly, jolly-well, natch, surely), ห่างไกลมาก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kat kat (by long odds, in layers, laminal, laminar, laminated, multiplex), kıyaslanamaz ölçüde, büyük farkla (by far better, far better). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

незрівняно, безсумнівно (beyond doubt, beyond question, certainly, clearly, decidedly, decisively, doubtless, easily, no doubt, out of dispute, out of doubt, questionless, surely, undoubtedly, without doubt, without question), безперечно (decidedly, forsooth, positively, sure). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Far And Away

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-d-f-n-r-w-y"

-3 letters: faraday, faraway.

-5 letters: award, drawn, dwarf, farad, fawny, randy.

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Alternative Orthography: Far And Away


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 72      41 6E 64      41 77 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000001 01110111 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#114 &#32 &#65 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#65 &#119 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0072      0041 006E 0064      0041 0077 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4067842358070235896791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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