distance

Meaning

Noun

1. An amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
2. An amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
3. Chiefly in from a distance: a place which is far away or remote; specifically (especially painting), a more remote part of a landscape or view as contrasted with the foreground.
4. Chiefly with a modifying word: a measure between two points or quantities; a difference, a variance.
5. An interval or length of time between events.
6. A separation in some way other than space or time.
7. (obsolete) Synonym of length (“an extent measured along the longest dimension of an object”)
8. (obsolete) A disagreement, a dispute; also, an estrangement.
9. (obsolete) A difference in pitch between sounds; an interval.
10. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
11. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
12. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
13. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
14. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
15. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
16. The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
17. Chiefly preceded by the, especially in into or in the distance: the place that is far away or remote.
18. The state of being separated from something else, especially by a long way; the state of being far off or remote; farness, remoteness.
19. The entire amount of progress to an objective.
20. The state of remoteness or separation in some way other than space or time.
21. The state of people not being close, friendly, or intimate with each other; also, the state of people who were once close, friendly, or intimate with each other no longer being so; estrangement.
22. Excessive reserve or lack of friendliness shown by a person; aloofness, coldness.
23. (obsolete) The rank to which an important person belongs.
24. (obsolete) The state of disagreement or dispute between people; dissension.
25. (obsolete) Often followed by to or towards: an attitude of remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, ceremoniousness.

Verb

1. Often followed by from: to set (someone or something) at a distance (noun sense 1.1) from someone or something else.
2. To cause (a place, a thing, etc.) to seem distant, or (figurative) unfamiliar.
3. To leave behind (someone or something moving in the same direction; specifically, other competitors in a race) some distance away; to outpace, to outstrip.
4. To keep (someone) emotionally or socially apart from another person or people.
5. To exceed or surpass (someone, such as a peer or rival); to outdo, to outstrip.
6. To keep (oneself) away from someone or something, especially because one does not want to be associated with that person or thing.
7. Of a racehorse: to beat (another horse) by a certain distance; also (passive voice), to cause (a horse) to be disqualified by beating it by a certain distance.
8. (obsolete) To cover the entire distance to (something).
9. (obsolete) To depart from (a place); to leave (a place) behind.
10. (obsolete) To indicate or measure the distance to (a place).
11. (obsolete) To set (two or more things) at regular distances from each other; to space, to space out.
12. Often followed by from.
13. Often followed by from.

Concepts

distance

space

remoteness

interval

length

range

gap

way

offset

journey

extent

outstrip

mileage

expanse

direction

place

stretch

span

remove

outdistance

road

route

send away

turn away

spacing

fetch

width

height

aloofness

haul

step

course

farness

far away

far

distant

far off place

far off time

competition

far and near

here and there

perspective

difference

estrangement

path length

itinerary

across

beyond

other side

reach

milage

period

run

shot

turn

spread

division

section

posteriority

absence

reserve

walk

d

deviation

DX

amount

compass

limit

measure

number

quantity

scope

sphere

time

avenue

street

between

line

position

air space

cruising radius

geodesic distance

at a distance

atmosphere

depths

room

moving away

postponement

removal

period of time

yonder

alien

alienate

leave behind

farawayness

abstemiousness

abstention

abstinence

continence

continency

restraint

standoffishness

yardage

by correspondence

distant place

chase

move away

separate

move away from

Distance

remotion

space perception

trip

Hyphenated as

dis‧tance

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɪst(ə)ns/

Etymology

From Middle English distance, distaunce, destance (“disagreement, dispute; discrimination; armed conflict; hostility; trouble; space between two points; time interval”), from Anglo-Norman distance, distaunce, destance, Middle French distance, and Old French destance, destaunce, distaunce (“debate; difference, distinction; discord, quarrel; dispute; space between two points; time interval”) (modern French distance), and directly from their etymon Latin distantia (“difference, diversity; distance, remoteness; space between two points”) (whence also Late Latin distantia (“disagreement; discrepancy; gap, opening; time interval”)), from distāns (“being distant; standing apart”) + -ia (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). Distāns is the present active participle of distō (“to be distant; to stand apart; to differ”), from dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, asunder; in two’) + stō (“to stand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* Middle Dutch distancie, distantie (modern Dutch distantie); Dutch afstand (“distance”, literally “off-stand, off-stance”)
* German Distanz; German Abstand
* Italian distanza
* Portuguese distância
* Spanish distancia

Sentences

The vast space stretched into the far distance .