Definition of faraway
1 : lying at a great distance : remote faraway lands
2 : dreamy, abstracted a faraway look in her eyes
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Examples of faraway in a Sentence
My grandfather told us tales of faraway lands.
growing up in a seaport instilled in the youth a restless desire to travel to faraway places
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