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# farther

«farther» in Mova's school dictionary: **more far, a longer way away** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb, adjective (far, farther, farthest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Farther means more far, a longer way away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/#m1)

2) Farther can also mean more forward or onward: walk farther. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

maths: comparisons of distance; «how much farther» asks for a difference (subtract); «n farther» adds n; PE: who threw or jumped farther; everyday life: farther down the road

### examples

- Tom ran 5 km and Ben ran 2 km farther. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/#x1)
- How much farther is the park than the shop? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/#x2)
- Who threw the ball farther? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/#x3)
- She lives 3 miles farther away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/#x4)
- The beach is farther than the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/#x5)
- We can't walk any farther. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/#x6)
- Her paper plane flew farther than mine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/#x7)
- "Is it much farther?" asked Proserpina. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/#x8)

### note

Compare distances: «n farther» adds n; «how much farther» subtracts. Trap: read who is farther before subtracting. «Further» is also fine for distance, and also means more or extra (further help).

### In the corpora

- [A whistle can be heard much farther than a shout, and it does not wear out your voice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/17-if-you-are-lost/17/)
- [A sound from one side reaches the nearer ear a tiny bit earlier and louder than the farther ear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/14/)
- [Stars do the same as Earth moves round the Sun, and the smaller the jump, the farther the star.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/2/)
- [The farther a planet is from the Sun, the longer it takes to go around it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/16/)
- [Gravity gets weaker the farther apart two objects are.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «farther» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farther/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.