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Meaning of far-flung | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/ˌfɑːˈflʌŋ/

Definitions

  1. Distant or remote in relationship, space, or time.
  2. Widely distributed, wide-ranging, or widespread.
  3. Widely but sparsely distributed.

Examples

“God of our fathers, known of old, / Lord of our far-flung battle-line, / […] / Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, / Lest we forget—lest we forget!”
“Introduced in the 1960s, Motorail was successful at a time when long-distance travel by car was a time-consuming process because of a lack of motorways. Services, both during the day and at night, ran to such far-flung places on the map as Penzance, Fishguard, Inverness and Fort William.”
“In the spacious laboratories and offices […] are provided not only centralised chemical research facilities for the far-flung London area, but also accommodation for the national headquarters of the B.R. Chemical Services, […]”
“In her introductory essay, editor Carole Vance acknowledges the problem of women's status as an "understudied group." She invites both careful and far-flung conversation about sex and difference, and urges s to resist making generalizations based on an incomplete dialogue.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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