As your friend gets more serious about moving to a farm and you fall in love with New York City, you may feel like your dreams are moving further apart. Further is an adverb that means "to a greater distance."
Further and farther can be used interchangeably in most cases, although it's more correct to use farther when you're talking about physical distance, as in "the birds flew farther away from me," and further to mean an abstract distance, when two things are moving apart in terms of ideals, agreement, or thoughts. There's also a verb form of further that means "to promote the growth or progress of," which you might use in a sentence like, "These new gigs should help him further his success as a rock musician."
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advadj |
to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense)
more distant in especially degree
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2 |
adv |
in addition or furthermore
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3 |
v |
contribute to the progress or growth of
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