distant
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2.8
- adjective
- /ˈdɪstənt/
:
lejano
- The development along Queens Road was distant from the industrial portion of the village.
- more distant
- travel to distant places
- distant places
Imagining that was a mountain, a distant mountain, my goal.
- Imagining that was a mountain, a distant mountain, my goal.
- Then we go beyond the distant hills, let his wisdom flow.
- The stars are not just physical, distant, abstract balls of plasma or gas.
- Suspended from a very very distant object.
- It has found the most distant cluster of proto galaxies ever.
- Listening to sort of distant laughter and chinking of glasses, right?
- He was once again looking at distant places as the real goal for his armies.
- That's, that's that's why we can see light from all these super distant stars.
Examples
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Very far away in a distant Galaxy.
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Why are mercury levels going up in a place as distant as Greenland?
Academic text (2012) -
It's because we work somewhere distant from where we live.
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You have a friend who comes from a distant land.
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The mountains and rivers are distant and far; the road goes on and on.
Academic text (1990) -
We're seeing distant galaxies or distant stars with our eyes.
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And the longer it stares, the fainter and more distant objects you can see.
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Although the Andromeda Galaxy is distant, it can be seen with the unaided eye.
Academic text (1991) -
I skirt around the brush and the wetland and head toward a distant rise lined with low cedars.
Academic text (2011) -
The distant mountains were covered in snow, shining brightly under the sun.
Synonyms
241
1.0
At a great distance in space or time
218
3.6
Far away from towns and people
45
4.2
Very far away in place or time
34
2.8
Far from here in place or time
13
6.3
Distant places spread over a very wide area
Antonyms
Compounds
How Distant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Distant comes from the parts dis- 'apart' and stand 'to stand', so something that 'stands apart' is far away in space.