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Farther off were the distance-subdued noises of an awakening farm.

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  1. adverb From a place or position: drove off.
  2. adverb At a certain distance in space or time: a mile off; a week off.
  3. adverb From a given course or route; aside: swerved off into a ditch.

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  • Farther off was a symmetrical round barrow, and in front of them, everywhere that they faced, were hills, but hills higher and kindlier than the shadowed and doom-laden mound on which they stood. —  The Dancing Druids - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 21: 1948
  • Further off was the Harbour Square, where gathered foreigners recently landed and the idlers of the city in search of news, and where the booksellers offered the new books and pamphlets. —  Saint Augustin
  • Part of what turned her off was his clear superiority of brain. —  Xone of Contention
  • A little farther off was a native oven, namely, a pit lined with stones This was Patteson's nearest contact with cannibalism, and it left a deep impression of horror The Banks group of islands came next—Great Banks Isle, or in the native language Vanua Lava, Valua or Saddle Isle, a long narrow ridge of hills, Mota or Sugarloaf Island, an equally descriptive name; Star Island, and Santa Maria. —  Life of John Coleridge Patteson
  • The group's operating income plunged 45\% to €417m in the 12 months to 31 December but that was without taking into account the €750m write-off from the Finnish reactor delays and cost overruns.
 

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  1. Variant of Middle English of, from Old English; see apo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English off, of: same as of, prep.: see of.
  2. from off, adv.
  3. Exclamatory use of off, adv.
 

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