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long distance
1noun
- telephone service between distant places.
long-distance
2[ lawng-dis-tuhns, long- ]
adjective
- of, from, or between distant places:
a long-distance phone call.
- for, over, or covering long distances:
a long-distance runner.
adverb
- by long-distance telephone:
to call someone long-distance.
long-distance
noun
- modifier covering relatively long distances
a long-distance driver
- modifier (of telephone calls, lines, etc) connecting points a relatively long way apart
- a long-distance telephone call
- a long-distance telephone system or its operator
adverb
- by a long-distance telephone line
he phoned long-distance
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Word History and Origins
Origin of long distance1
Origin of long distance2
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Example Sentences
I was in a long-distance relationship at the time with my high-school boyfriend.
He was smart and tough in the way of the hard worker, the long-distance runner, the gambler who wins on stamina.
At the time, she was also in a long-distance relationship with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins.
Many of the dead were killed by long-distance sniper rounds.
It deals with a long distance relationship from Detroit to Tangier.
It was a long distance away, far as his eyes could see, and it appeared like a dark cloud near the earth.
They were returning from their pursuit of the scouting party and were strung out a long distance along the road.
It was one of those evenings when everything is quiet and sound travels a long distance.
He stuffed them all into the pocket of his overcoat, and went out and hunted up a long-distance telephone sign.
At the same time I heard that long-distance telephone connections with Berlin had been reopened.
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