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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective More distant in degree, time, or space.
  • adjective Additional.
  • adverb To a greater extent; more.
  • adverb In addition; furthermore.
  • adverb At or to a more distant or advanced point.
  • transitive verb To help the progress of; promote. synonym: advance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To help or urge onward or forward; promote; advance; forward.
  • To help or assist.
  • More remote; more distant than something else.
  • Additional; continued or continuing; extending beyond.
  • At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond, literally or figuratively: as, move further away; seek no further for happiness.
  • In addition; to a greater extent; by way of extension, progression, or continuation: as, I say further that no man knows the reason.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To help forward; to promote; to advance; to forward; to help or assist.
  • adverb To a greater distance; in addition; moreover. See farther.
  • adverb not so near; apart by a greater distance.
  • adjective More remote; at a greater distance; more in advance; farther. See farther.
  • adjective Beyond; additional

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To encourage growth.
  • verb To support progress or growth of something.
  • adjective comparative form of far: more far; of or pertaining to being distant, or of greater distance in degree or of extension in time.
  • adjective More, additional.
  • adverb comparative form of far: more far
  • adverb conjunctive Also; in addition to.
  • adverb location At greater distance in space or time; farther.
  • adverb conjunctive Moreover; beyond what is already stated.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb contribute to the progress or growth of
  • adverb in addition or furthermore
  • adjective more distant in especially degree
  • verb promote the growth of
  • adverb to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense)
  • adverb to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old English furthra, from furthor, farther. Adv., from Middle English, from Old English furthor; see per in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old English furþor, from Proto-Germanic *furþera, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (a common preposition).

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Examples

  • J Brand was already the must-have jean brand for the style pack even the Duchess of Cambridge wanted a piece of the action but this long-term collaboration has won the label further fashion credentials.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The extra "r" added by Jarry only propels the word further from any semantic content and into the realm of pure scream and abstraction.

    That Ubu That He Did So Well Gabriel Josipovici 2012

  • This time it was Katani who found the name further down the wall among the Rs.

    Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

  • This time it was Katani who found the name further down the wall among the Rs.

    Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

  • His flat options for a title further betray his depression: he toyed with “Imitating the Equator,” “Another Innocent Abroad,” “The Latest,” and “The Surviving Innocent Abroad”; not until July did he decide on Following the Equator and its faintly redundant subtitle, A Journey Around the World.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • His flat options for a title further betray his depression: he toyed with “Imitating the Equator,” “Another Innocent Abroad,” “The Latest,” and “The Surviving Innocent Abroad”; not until July did he decide on Following the Equator and its faintly redundant subtitle, A Journey Around the World.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • The title further shows the audience “full written details on request” and “makes the other 93% count.”

    Influence in Advertising, Television, and Film 2004

  • The burgher started visibly, and his expression further paled on seeing Pieter, his rangy but muscular frame outlined in the light, a pair of gamebirds in one hand and a musket, held at the trigger, in the other.

    The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003

  • The burgher started visibly, and his expression further paled on seeing Pieter, his rangy but muscular frame outlined in the light, a pair of gamebirds in one hand and a musket, held at the trigger, in the other.

    The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003

  • The burgher started visibly, and his expression further paled on seeing Pieter, his rangy but muscular frame outlined in the light, a pair of gamebirds in one hand and a musket, held at the trigger, in the other.

    The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003

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