They came from far away.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
大老远
very far away
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
very far away
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 大老远 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大老远 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Thank you for coming all the way in this rain.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 大老远.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大老远.
Directly before
- 你大老远1
- 他们大老远1
Directly after
- 大老远在1
- 大老远赶来1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 大老远
What does 大老远 mean in Chinese?
大老远 (dàlǎoyuǎn) means very far away.
How do you pronounce 大老远?
大老远 is pronounced dàlǎoyuǎn.
Is 大老远 an HSK word?
大老远 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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