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Definition of Far-flung
1. Adjective. Distributed over a considerable extent. "Widespread nuclear fallout"
2. Adjective. Remote. "Far-flung corners of the Empire"
Definition of Far-flung
1. Adjective. Remote or distant, in space, time or relationship. ¹
2. Adjective. Wide-ranging, widespread or widely distributed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Far-flung
Literary usage of Far-flung
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"To keep in cover, but essays to storm Only with far-flung shafts the bastion strong.
Here grim Mezentius, terrible ..."
2. Chile Today and Tomorrow by Lilian Elwyn Elliott Joyce (1922)
"far-flung Cities. — Formation of Character. — Animals and Plants. CHILE is a
ribbon of a country, an emerald and gold strip stretched between the ..."
3. The Book of Birmingham by John R. Hornady (1921)
"CHAPTER XXI far-flung INFLUENCES REFERENCE has been made to the fact that Birmingham
is remarkable for the size of its Sunday School classes and for the ..."
4. Blue Jackets of 1918: Being the Story of the Work of the American Navy in by Willis John Abbot (1921)
"Our far-flung squadrons. IT was the " small fry" of the navy—the destroyers,
submarine-chasers and the light cruisers —that were in the public eye during ..."
5. The Great War: A Pictorial History of the 1914-1919 Fight for Freedom and by Thomas Herbert Russell, William Dunseath Eaton (1919)
"... CHAPTER XVIII BATTLE OF THE AISNE Most Prolonged Encounter in History Between
Gigantic Forces—A Far-Flung Battle Line—Germans Face French and British in ..."
6. The Standard by American Ethical Union (1920)
"But that difficulty is nothing as compared, say, with the government of the
British Empire, with its far-flung and complex civilizations, with its many ..."
7. Philip Dru: Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 by Edward Mandell House (1912)
"The reason Newton had this in mind was that he thought Dru's line was far flung,
and he believed that if he could drive through ..."
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