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Distant

adjective

Separated in space or coming from or going to a distance. "The sound of distant traffic" , "A distant sound" , "A distant telephone call"

Far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship. Synonym: remote. "A remote relative" , "A distant likeness" , "Considerations entirely removed (or remote) from politics"

Remote in manner. Synonyms: aloof, upstage. "A distant smile" , "He was upstage with strangers"

Separate or apart in time. Synonyms: remote, removed. "The remote past or future"

Located far away spatially. Synonym: remote. "Remote stars"

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"Distant" Quotes from Famous Books

... sympathy with each other when they meet as wanderers in foreign countries. Scotland is just a small enough country to cause a certain unity of feeling amongst the people. Wherever they are, they feel that Scotsmen should stand, as their proverb has it, shoulder to shoulder. The more distant the clime in which they meet, they remember with the more intensity their common land of mountain and flood, their historical and poetical associations, the various national institutions which ages have endeared to ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 - Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 • Various

... a gentle breeze through its countless needles caused that mysterious sighing which is perhaps nature's softest and saddest note. One's thoughts went back to the brave old Colonel who wrought so well and had such high hopes for his posterity to the soldier son, remembered here, who died in far distant India; and to the other soldier son who fell in Canada upon the field of battle. He was the last male heir of his line. The name and the family are now well-nigh forgotten. The inscriptions on the tomb, reared by a friend, connected with the Nairnes by ties of friendship ...

— A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs - The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 • George M. Wrong

... plane, and relieves us from the thing that is hurting. This habit of prayer for others, and especially for the world, brings its own recompense, and leaves upon our hearts a blessing like the fertility which the Nile deposits upon the soil of Egypt, as it flows through to its distant goal. ...

— Days of Heaven Upon Earth • Rev. A. B. Simpson

... climbing mountains. The nearer mountains shut out my view of the more distant ones, from which I have come and to which ...

— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer

... was designed to have an opposite tendency; and in this, the people of Caen are praised for their acuteness, and the town for its excellent harbor and great rivers. The patent also adds, that the nearest university, that of Paris, is fifty leagues distant. ...

— Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2) • Dawson Turner

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