adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exotic/far-off destination (= far away from where you are, and exciting )
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The company arranges tours to exotic destinations such as Nepal.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
country
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Women weave scarves that are sold in far-off countries .
days
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Making tough choices now will pay dividends in the far-off days of summer.
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In those far-off days First Division meant first, and Second Division meant second.
land
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A messenger from a far-off land brought fearful news - see the Stuff pages for full details. 5.
place
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I tried to imagine why he lived such a quiet and lonely life in this far-off place .
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It looked impossibly quaint, although nothing like as appealing as those far-off places of her imagination.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They knew that invaders would come from a far-off land.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he did fly, in his imagination, on make-believe journeys to far-off realms.
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Could it be that one far-off day intelligent computers will speculate about their own lost origins?
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From a distance, Europa had seemed like a giant snowball, reflecting the light of the far-off Sun with remarkable efficiency.
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It rouses far-off memories of infancy, of being handled and given comfort.
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Making tough choices now will pay dividends in the far-off days of summer.
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So there was a vision of treasure, far-off blood, and fear.
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The first stunning silence gave way to the creaking of the ship and a far-off booming of the sea against the hull.
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Women weave scarves that are sold in far-off countries.