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Further   /fˈərðər/   Listen
Further

adjective
1.
More distant in especially degree.  Synonym: farther.  "Further from our expectations" , "Farther from the truth" , "Farther from our expectations"
adverb
1.
To or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage ('further' is used more often than 'farther' in this abstract sense).  Synonym: farther.  "Let's not discuss it further" , "Nothing could be further from the truth" , "They are further along in their research than we expected" , "The application of the law was extended farther" , "He is going no farther in his studies"
2.
In addition or furthermore.  "Stated further that he would not cooperate with them" , "They are definitely coming; further, they should be here already"
3.
To or at a greater distance in time or space ('farther' is used more frequently than 'further' in this physical sense).  Synonym: farther.  "Moved farther away" , "Farther down the corridor" , "The practice may go back still farther to the Druids" , "Went only three miles further" , "Further in the future"
verb
(past & past part. furthered; pres. part. furthering)
1.
Promote the growth of.  Synonym: foster.
2.
Contribute to the progress or growth of.  Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, promote.



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"Further" Quotes from Famous Books



... further observations I may have made must be deferred for the present. You will see in what way it happened that my thoughts were turned from spiritual matters to bodily ones, and how I got my fancy full of material images,—faces, heads, figures, muscles, and so forth,—in ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... influential publicist or statesman. The Dutch had just begun to see what a picture their country was—its canals, and boompjis, and endless, broadly-lighted meadows, and thousands of miles of quaint water-side: and their painters, the first true masters of landscape for its own sake, were further informing them in the matter. They were bringing proof, for all who cared to see, of the wealth of colour there was all around them in this, supposably, sad land. Above all, they developed the old Low-country taste for interiors. Those innumerable genre ...
— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Horatio Pater

... sitting before her dresser; but as Virginia offered no further information she shook out the splendid masses of her chestnut hair and, leaning forward, examined her features in the mirror ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers

... business with him, this; which, even in the time of War, he never neglects; and which springs out like a stemmed flood, whenever Peace leaves him free for it. His labors by all methods to awaken new branches of industry, to cherish and further the old, are incessant, manifold, unwearied; and will surprise the uninstructed reader, when he comes to study them. An airy, poetizing, bantering, lightly brilliant King, supposed to be serious mainly in things ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--The Ten Years of Peace.--1746-1756. • Thomas Carlyle

... not yet or have not been but lately used in England, viz., selleri (celery), which is nothing else but the sweet smallage; the young shoots whereof, with a little of the head of the root cut off, they eat raw with oil and pepper.' And further he adds 'curled endive blanched is much used beyond seas; and, for a raw sallet, seemed to excel lettuce itself.' Now this journey was undertaken no longer ago than in the ...
— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White


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