distant
English edit
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.
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distant (comparative more distant, superlative most distant)
- Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
- Synonyms: faraway; see also Thesaurus:distant
- We heard a distant rumbling but didn't pay any more attention to it. She was surprised to find that her fiancé was a distant relative of hers. His distant look showed that he was not listening to me.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
- Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.
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far off
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emotionally unresponsive
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Further reading edit
- “distant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “distant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “distant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
distant m or f (masculine and feminine plural distants)
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Further reading edit
- “distant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “distant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “distant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “distant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
distant (feminine distante, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantes)
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Descendants edit
- → Romanian: distant
Further reading edit
- “distant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
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distant
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French distant, from Latin distantem.
Adjective edit
distant m or n (feminine singular distantă, masculine plural distanți, feminine and neuter plural distante)
Declension edit
Declension of distant
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | distant | distantă | distanți | distante | ||
definite | distantul | distanta | distanții | distantele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | distant | distante | distanți | distante | ||
definite | distantului | distantei | distanților | distantelor |
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Romansch edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin distantem.
Adjective edit
distant m (feminine singular distanta, masculine plural distants, feminine plural distantas)