distant

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Inherited from Middle English distaunt, from Old French distant, from Latin distāns.

“On a tombstone in a distant land. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
I hear no distant roar of streams! — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
They were, besides, both equally her distant relations. — History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Henry Fielding

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