distant

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  1. adjective Separate or apart in space.
  2. adjective Far removed; remote: distant lands.
  3. adjective Coming from or going to a distance: a distant sound; a distant telephone call.

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  • A block distant was a small park It was in the park that Doc Savage left Monk and Nona Space, an arrangement entirely to Monk's satisfaction. —  024 - Red Snow
  • A place eight miles distant, about three miles below the Kuruman fountain, where the river of that name had its source, was examined and found to offer better advantages for a missionary station than any other for hundreds of miles round. —  Robert Moffat
  • Doc Savage pitched to the plane door in time to see Monk fold like a hinge in the middle and pitch forward on the ground A hundred yards or so distant, an oil-tank truck had stopped. —  083 - The Other World
  • Then he returned his gaze to the distant island Yes Eleven Taylor had withdrawn behind an impenetrable psychic wall, so I left him and made my way back toward the restaurant. —  Muller, Marcia - [11] Trophies and Dead Things.htm
  • She sounded tired and distant, and when I offered to come over and keep her company later, she said she'd rather I didn't His lung was collapsed, and there was other internal damage as well. —  Muller, Marcia - [11] Trophies and Dead Things.htm
 

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  1. Middle English distaunt, from Old French, from Latin distāns, distant-, present participle of distāre, to be remote : dis-, apart; see dis- + stāre, to stand; see stā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. A variant of distance, v.
  2. from Middle English distant, from Old French distant, French distant = Spanish Portuguese Italian distante, from Latin distan(t-)s, present participle of distare, stand apart, be separate, distant, or different, from di-, dis-, apart, + stare, stand: see stand. and cf. constant, extant, instant, restant.
 

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