distant
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- a separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
distant villages
the sound of distant traffic
a distant sound
a distant telephone call - a far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship
a distant cousin
a distant likeness - s remote in manner
a distant smile - s separate or apart in time
distant events - s located far away spatially
distant lands
- Obama's distant cousin, Gabriel Duvall, was a member of the US House of Representatives, from the second district of Maryland.
- As astronomers probe outward in space, they are looking backward in time, because the light that they see from very distant objects started its journey millions of years ago.
- The most distant of them, 3C-9, showed signs of a kind of ultraviolet which comes from the sun in considerable quantities but is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere.