far-flung
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6.3
- adjective
- /fɑr flʌŋ/
:
lejano
- In addition, his company was becoming a far-flung operation because he hired engineers located throughout the country.
- far-flung empire
- far-flung locales
- far-flung network
Thomas goes on cruises in far-flung locales on Crow's yacht.
- Thomas goes on cruises in far-flung locales on Crow's yacht.
- So you get these far-flung ideas that begin to connect.
- And it's not just now in far-flung countries.
- They have a pretty far-flung social and mercantile network.
- These events that follow elections tend to attract viewers from across the country and in far-flung corners of the globe.
- Insurance is usually a really good idea if you can get some insurance for a year before you travel out there in far-flung places of the planet.
- You know, he looked to shamans as kind of the scientists, the high magicians of the high archaic past and the far-flung future.
Examples
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Sometimes an unexpected outcome of a project can have far-flung implications.
Academic text (2007) -
Electronic messaging meant that physicists in far-flung locations could exchange information quickly.
Academic text (2012) -
And it's not just now in far-flung countries.
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...decided to go to some far-flung country... who knows?
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The British built the largest and most far-flung empire in human experience.
Academic text (1999) -
In his turn, he will be able to teach the local children in the most far-flung regions of the country.
Academic text (2008) -
I always love it when we reach out to people in far-flung corners of the globe.
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The nation's far-flung commercial network stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains.
Academic text (2007) -
Some scholars hypothesized that the Indus civilization was heavily dependent on trade with far-flung regions such as Mesopotamia.
Academic text (2008) -
She has friends living in far-flung regions of the world, from Australia to Antarctica.
Synonyms
246
2.8
Far away in space, not near you
218
3.6
Far away from towns and people
45
4.2
Very far away in place or time
34
2.8
Far from here in place or time
10
6.1
Far from towns and not easy to reach
Antonyms
How Distant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Far-flung joins far 'at a great distance' and flung, which comes from fling and means 'thrown'. Picture something 'thrown far' across the map, and that's why far-flung means distant or spread over a very wide area.