Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The region encompassing East Asia, Southeast Asia, and sometimes South Asia.
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- proper noun East Asia (
Korea ,Japan ,China , and theRussian Far East) andSoutheast Asia , taken as a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)
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Examples
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Did a lot of circuits around the really Far East, which is more like the far west, really, but there it is.
The running from San Pedro blues James Lloyd Davis 2011
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People who knew Backhouse described him variously as "gelatinous," "deranged" and "the most remarkable scoundrel ever known in the Far East, which is saying a lot."
Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver Joseph Epstein 2011
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Did a lot of circuits around the really Far East, which is more like the far west, really, but there it is.
The running from San Pedro blues James Lloyd Davis 2011
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—East Asia is preferable to Far East, which is less precise.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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—East Asia is preferable to Far East, which is less precise.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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The vigour and resilience of the South African economy and the relative stability of the rand in the face of the financial crisis in the Far East was the ultimate accolade to the ANC's economic team and the way it had run the country since 1994.
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The deputy president said in an address to the G7 on Saturday that Japan and the new industrialising countries of the Far East were the main beneficiaries of a shift in the growth component of
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The potters of the Far East were the first to use refractory clays for their kilns.
1. Refractories 1987
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We Chinese respect and slightly admire the British, although we do not believe that the Far East is your part of the world any more than we regard Europe as our part.
A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978
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In all my journeyings in Yün-nan I was increasingly impressed with the value of the missionary, that man who of all men in the Far East is the most subject to malicious criticism, and generally, be it said, from those persons who know little or nothing about his work.
Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926
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