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# farthest

«farthest» in Mova's school dictionary: **At the greatest distance; the most far away** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (far, farther, farthest); adverb (farthest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) At the greatest distance; the most far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farthest/#m1)

2) (adverb) To the greatest distance: «who can throw farthest?». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farthest/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and PE, comparing distances: who jumped or threw the farthest; which planet is farthest from the Sun. It is the superlative of «far». Phrases: «the farthest point», «farthest away», «farthest from».

### examples

- Neptune is the farthest planet from the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farthest/#x1)
- Who can throw the ball the farthest? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farthest/#x2)
- The farthest I have walked is 10 kilometres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farthest/#x3)
- Our classroom is the farthest from the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farthest/#x4)
- Sam lives farthest away from school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farthest/#x5)
- In the long jump, Ella jumped 3 m, Jo 2.5 m and Kim 2 m, so Ella jumped farthest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farthest/#x6)
- It was the farthest corner of the garden, and in it was standing a little boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farthest/#x7)

### note

Forms: far, farther, farthest — or far, further, furthest. Both mean distance; «further/furthest» is more common in the UK and is also used for «more» (further help). In maths, «farthest» means the largest distance number.

### In the corpora

- [Neptune is the planet farthest from the Sun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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